Man, 24, charged after child seriously hurt in collision with motorbike
A man has been charged after a nine-year-old boy suffered life-changing injuries in a collision in a park in Hull on Bank Holiday Monday.
Emergency services rushed to Rosmead Playing Fields, near Southcoates Lane, after reports that the boy had allegedly been hit by an off-road motorbike which left the scene without stopping.
Jerome Cawkwell, 24, of Cambridge Grove, Hull has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving without a licence, using a vehicle without insurance and using a vehicle not in efficient working order.
He has been remanded in custody to appear before Hull Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
The boy remains in hospital, police said.