Teenager died from brain injury after being thrown from modified electric bike

A teenage boy from Bury died after being thrown from a non-road legal, modified, electric bike last year, a court has heard. He had been warned not to use the 'sports mode' of his friend's bike but was found unconscious and bleeding a short time later.

Dr Kulkarni told an inquest at Preston Coroners' Court today : "The pressure in Owen's brain was 80mm whereas normally it should be between 15mm and 20mm. [Surgery] wasn't [immediately] an option for Owen because his brain pressure was so high that it would have caused him to die on the table and bleed out. He would have died instantly."

The modifications had not contributed to the death, PC Ward added, saying that Owen had applied the front brakes in an effort to stop, but this threw him from the front of it. Police estimated Owen had been travelling at between 20mph and 30mph when he was thrown from the bike.

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