Air Ambulance scrambled to South Yorkshire motorbike crash involving teens

A crash involving a motorbike with a 15-year-old rider left three people hurt in Rotherham.

Police are now trying to work out what happened in the incident, which is understood to have resulted in the Yorkshire Air Ambulance being scrambled.

The teenage rider was injured and taken to hospital, though South Yorkshire Police have said his injuries are not understood to be life-threatening.

A passenger was riding on the motorcycle – a girl aged 16 – received minor injuries.

The bike was in collision with a black Volkswagen Golf, driven by a 30-year-old woman who received minor injuries.

The incident happened at 3.18pm on Sunday, at the junction of Western Road and Badsley Moor Road in East Dene.

A police spokesperson said: “As our investigation into the circumstances continues, we’re urging anyone who witnessed the collision and has not yet spoken to officers, or those with dashcam footage of the collision or the vehicles prior to the collision, to come forward and speak to us.”

Police can be contacted by telephone on 101, or via a chat facility on the force’s website. Callers should quote incident number 533 of July 26.

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