{"id":336550,"date":"2025-12-09T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336550\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:17:10","slug":"family-of-teenager-killed-in-e-bike-collision-pay-tribute-to-beautiful-14-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336550\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of teenager killed in e-bike collision pay tribute to &#8216;beautiful&#8217; 14-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Melbourne family is grieving the loss of their son, after a 14-year-old boy was killed in an e-bike collision on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to Shute Street in Diamond Creek, north-east of Melbourne, about 10pm after reports of a collision between a four-wheel drive and an e-bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The rider of the e-bike, identified as a 14-year-old named Ryley, was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 22-year-old man behind the wheel of the four-wheel drive was interviewed by police and later released.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scene of a fatal crash\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b4003c1a4757868c93b23d5035d0a966\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police were called to the site of a fatal crash about 10pm on Monday night. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, Ryley&#8217;s family paid tribute to the teenager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Ryley was a beautiful natured boy who was incredibly loved and will be sadly missed,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We ask our privacy is respected at this very difficult and sad time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone who witnessed the collision, or has footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers online or on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne family is grieving the loss of their son, after a 14-year-old boy was killed in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,43216,38911,102016,44],"class_list":["post-336550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-collision","tag-e-bike","tag-fatality","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336550","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=336550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}