A teenage boy died after falling off a modified electric bike borrowed from a friend. Owen David Jones asked to borrow his friend Marley's bike, which was not road legal, as they walked with another friend, Jack, on May 11 this year. Owen set off down the hill and when he hadn't returned after 10 minutes his friends became concerned.
At the bottom of the hill, Marley and Jack found Owen lying unconscious, bleeding, with his head against the kerb. Owen was airlifted to hospital where doctors discovered he had suffered a catastrophic brain injury with several fractures, reports LancsLive.
Owen had been placed on 'quadruple' sedation, to shut down his brain and see if the pressure would reduce. Just over half an hour later, Owen went into cardiac arrest and he died. An inquest at Preston Coroner's Court heard that Owen's brain injury had caused his heart to become unstable with a rate of more than 150 beats per minute.
