The ruling on a car driver admitting to a hit-and-run accident

Question:
This man is asking about a person who was driving a car and had an accident. He hit a man and then fled, but then he returned and found that the police had arrived and the man was lying on the ground. He was afraid that if he revealed the truth to them, he would be held liable, and the car was borrowed. He says: What is the ruling? He says: It is obligatory for him, it is obligatory for him to admit to it, because this was a mistake that happened to him.

Answer:
A mistake happened to him; he hit a man who may have died. It is obligatory for him to admit to the right that is upon him. It is obligatory for him to admit to the right that is upon him. If he does not admit to it, it remains a debt in his conscience, and he will be asked about it on the Day of Resurrection. And getting rid of it in this world is easier for him than it remaining upon him on the Day of Resurrection. Admitting to the right is a virtue. As for the fact that this was a mistake and he did not intend it, this is an error, and the punishment for it is known: there is no retaliation (qisas) in it, but only blood money (diyah) and expiation (kaffarah). And if he is imprisoned, the state imprisons him; this is also an easy matter. So, his admitting to it and fulfilling the right that is upon him and clearing his conscience is obligatory upon him.