It took four years for Peel Regional Police to find a Hamilton man who fled the scene of a crash in south Mississauga that left a Burlington motorcyclist with catastrophic injuries.

Now, Christopher Causgrove-Carter, 32, is going to jail after pleading guilty for his role in the crash in which he ditched his Ford Escape and left the badly injured motorcyclist on the road.

Justice Paul Monahan sentenced Causgrove-Carter in Brampton court on Feb. 1 to nine days in jail after pleading guilty to failing to remain at the scene of an accident and failing to comply with recognizance. A Highway Traffic Act charge of making an unsafe turn was dropped.

The 4:15 p.m. crash on July 10, 2012 left the then-48-year-old Burlington man with serious injuries, recovering for months in Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto.