A teenager has died after he crashed into an ambulance while riding an e-bike as police followed him. The 15-year-old boy was riding the e-bike in Salford on Thursday afternoon, June 8, when he crashed into a parked ambulance.
Police and paramedics arrived at the scene within minutes and blocked off the road while serious collision investigators remained at the scene for hours into Thursday evening. Greater Manchester Police confirmed in a statement that officers had been following the teenager on the electric bike as he rode along the streets of Salford. The police stopped following the rider because they couldn’t get through bollards in the road, the MEN reports.
A statement from Greater Manchester Police reads: “At around 2pm today GMP traffic officers began following a boy riding an e-bike along Fitzwarren Street in Salford, onto Lower Seedley Road. Bollards prevented the police vehicle from continuing to follow the e-bike. A short time later a road traffic collision occurred between the e-bike and an ambulance on Langworthy Road. The 15-year-old boy riding the e-bike sadly died.”
