{"id":225224,"date":"2025-10-19T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:46:08","slug":"concern-for-young-boy-cycling-alone-on-main-road-with-no-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225224\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern for young boy cycling alone on main road with no helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"A grainy CCTV image of a boy cycling on a bright green BMX bicycle. His head is out of the frame.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"294\" height=\"165\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/108d439f98f6fbeb0c335e45870065f3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Police Scotland]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are appealing for information about a young boy who was spotted cycling alone with no helmet on on a main road in Dundee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BBC News understands the boy, aged between four and six, had been cycling for a considerable distance near traffic when the matter was reported to police at about 15:20 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was seen around Kings Cross Road and the Kingsway Retail Park, but when officers went to the scene he was no longer there.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The boy is described as wearing a white jumper, shorts and purple trainers with short blonde hair and was riding a very distinctive lime green BMX style bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police Scotland has released a CCTV image of the boy&#8217;s bicycle in the hope that someone who knows him will come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Insp Alan Baird said: &#8220;We want to make sure the boy is ok and is with his carers. If anyone recognises the description of the boy and knows who he is, please contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Also if the guardians of the boy see this and can confirm he is safe and well, please get in touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information has been urged to contact Police Scotland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/non-emergencies\/#:~:text=101%20provides%20an%20easy%2Dto,system%20will%20determine%20your%20location.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:non-emergency line.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">non-emergency line.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Police Scotland] Police are appealing for information about a young boy who was spotted cycling alone with no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,23431,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-225224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-police-scotland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}