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Manchester Evening News
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Damon Wilkinson

Teenager, 17, dies after falling off electric motorbike

A teenager has died after falling off an electric motorbike. Owen Jones suffered a serious head injury in the crash in Rossendale on Wednesday.

Tragically the 17-year-old died in hospital the next day. Police say no other vehicles were involved in the incident.

Emergency services were called to the incident on Goodshaw Fold Road, in Loveclough, at around 7pm. Owen, from Crawshawbooth, was riding a Sur-Ron LBX electric motorbike. Friends have been paying tribute to Owen on social media.

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