A campaign has been launched to prevent motorbikes and e-bikes being driven dangerously in a Staffordshire town after a recent crash which left a six-year-old girl seriously injured.<\/p>\n
A black motorbike, with a rider and passenger, hit a young girl on a push bike in Tamworth on 13 July.<\/p>\n
Local resident Leanne Lea has now set up a Facebook group called Stop Illegal Bikes in Tamworth as a way of drawing attention to the issue.<\/p>\n
“I just couldn’t sit back and do nothing,” she said. “It is absolutely horrific.”<\/p>\n
A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old have been arrested in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
The man was subsequently charged with offences including causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop following a road accident and using a motor vehicle on a road or public place without insurance.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the boy was released on conditional bail, according to police.<\/p>\n
The girl was taken to hospital by ambulance in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
Lea said the crash happened near to her home and said she knew the family of the girl.<\/p>\n
“I think there’s so many of our residents that are so fed up. They’re not getting listened to,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There’s no action being taken to help us stay safe where we live, to walk out of our own homes.<\/p>\n
“I just felt like something had to be done and our voices have got to be heard.”<\/p>\n
Lea, who is currently studying a law degree and also runs a youth club in Tamworth, said she wanted people to feel safe.<\/p>\n
This could include providing somewhere for children and teenagers to ride their bikes, she said.<\/p>\n
“I’m not quite sure how I plan on it being ended, but I just want people to know and feel safe doing everyday things that they should be able to do.”<\/p>\n
She said more than 100 people had completed a feedback form to share their views \u2013 many of whom had not reported issues to police, as they felt there was “no point” in doing so.<\/p>\n
“I’ve reported it many times,” she said. “I’ve only had a response back once from police.”<\/p>\n
Staffordshire Police have been contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A campaign has been launched to prevent motorbikes and e-bikes being driven dangerously in a Staffordshire town after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707715","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=707715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}