{"id":45072,"date":"2025-08-05T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45072\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:13:11","slug":"perth-teenage-e-dirt-bike-rider-accused-of-fatal-crash-gets-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45072\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth teenage e-dirt bike rider accused of fatal crash gets bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly struck the 59-year-old woman while riding the e-bike erratically in a public park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/perth\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Perth&#039;s\">Perth&#8217;s<\/a> northern suburbs on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared via video-link in the West Australian Children&#8217;s Court today, when he was granted bail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0f8da91e-9c50-4eff-9d8e-2abfe2a1fdce.png\"   alt=\"Edgewater park crash\"\/>A teenage boy has been accused of manslaughter after he allegedly collided with a pedestrian while he was riding an electric dirt bike. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>His conditions of release include residing at one of his parents&#8217; homes, a 7pm to 7am curfew at the residence unless accompanied by a parent, submitting to police checks during those hours and surrendering his passport.<\/p>\n<p>The boy must also not ride any vehicle, including electric bikes, on public roads or in public spaces and cannot approach international points of departure.<\/p>\n<p>The teen will live with his mother in a small town about an hour from Perth and his father will move to the property to share supervision duties of him.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution did not oppose bail after a favourable bail service report was returned to the court.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer Simon Watters told the court the boy would be kept busy and a support program would be put in place to help him.<\/p>\n<p>Watters said he had requested video recorded by a police helicopter of the boy riding the motorbike and that experts would analyse it to determine the speed he was travelling.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the bike may have had a mechanical issue.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged the boy with manslaughter, driving without a licence and riding an unregistered vehicle after the woman died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He was later also charged with reckless driving and failing to stop when ordered, with police alleging that five minutes before the woman was struck, an officer on a motorbike tried to stop the boy using lights and sirens.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the teen failed to stop and accelerated away, then travelled off-road.<\/p>\n<p>The police chase ceased due to public safety concerns, but the police air wing continued to monitor the boy.<\/p>\n<p>The matter will return to the same court on October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly struck the 59-year-old woman while riding the e-bike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-45072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072","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=45072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}