{"id":393706,"date":"2026-01-27T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:02:06","slug":"boy-14-charged-over-fatal-e-scooter-crash-in-manchester-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393706\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 14, charged over fatal e-scooter crash in Manchester | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a youngster died following a crash between the e-scooter they were riding and a car.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in Wythenshawe last March, Greater <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/manchester-6008\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manchester<\/a> Police said.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been charged with causing death by driving unlicensed and causing death by driving uninsured. The boy cannot be named for legal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The boy has been released on bail to next appear at Manchester Youth Court on 24 February.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Calland, also 14 and a passenger on the e-scooter, later died from the injuries he suffered in the collision on Southmoor Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a youngster died following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}