Motorbike rider admits dangerous driving after Hartlepool schoolboy suffered fractured skull
Eight-year-old boy was rushed to hospital
A motorbike rider has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving over a collision that left an eight-year-old boy with a fractured skull.
Callum Green, aged 20, admitted the offence in relation to the incident on Masefield Road, Hartlepool in April which resulted in the boy being rushed to hospital.
The Mail reported at the time how Masefield Road was shut at Catcote Road after the collision at around 3.45pm on Friday, April 24.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) landed a helicopter near to the scene and the injured boy was taken to North Tees hospital by road.
Green pleaded guilty to dangerous driving when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court on Thursday, November 12.
He was riding an unknown make of motorbike.
Judge Richard Clews ordered an “all options” report before the defendant is sentenced in December.
Green, of Alston Street, Hartlepool, also falls to be sentenced for grievous bodily harm against another male arising out of a separate incident on February 2.