A four-year-old boy died as a result of an accident after losing control of his seven-year-old cousin's mini motorbike and crashing into a metal pole.
Lennox Railton-Craggs jumped on the front of the new bike and pulled a lever causing it to accelerate. An inquest into his death heard how he started to come off the vehicle and hit a pole in the ground near his home in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.
The hearing, sitting at Durham and Darlington Coroner's Court, heard how his father chased after the children's motorbike, picked Lennox up and took him to his home on Elliott Terrace. However his cries for his mother turned to moans and he collapsed.
