The United Nations Development Programme acknowledged on Tuesday that one of its vehicles was involved in an accident the previous day.

“The United Nations Development Programme in Nepal was made aware of a traffic accident that occurred in Kathmandu on March 28 involving a vehicle assigned to one of its nationally implemented projects,” UNDP said in a rather cold statement. “As a result, the rider of a motorcycle sustained non-life-threatening injuries.”

A Toyota Prado bearing the registration number 66-1-1841 on Monday rammed into the scooter of Samiksha Adhikari, 25, a journalist working for the news website Setopati, catapulting her a few feet away along the road.

Adhikari sustained multiple fractures on her right leg and an injury to her right hand. She underwent a surgery on Monday evening, according to her husband Anup Ojha, a journalist for the Post.

The UN agency said that it is expecting the traffic police report into the accident, stopping short of expressing its willingness to cooperate in the investigation.

The accident took place in the Jhamsikhel area while Adhikari was on her way to office.

Police had detained the driver and impounded the vehicle after the accident only to release both later after collecting required documents including the driver’s driving license.

The UNDP vehicle involved in the accident was assigned to the Cooperative Marketing Development Programme.

Earlier in 2007 also, a UN vehicle was involved in an accident in Nepal, resulting in the deaths of two people.

A vehicle belonging to the United Nations Mission in Nepal had hit three pedestrians some 16 kilometres from Dhangadhi in the country’s western region. Two pedestrians had died and a third was seriously injured.