E-bike hit-and-run rider who mowed down and killed grandfather sent behind bars

A teeanager who killed an 86-year-old man by ploughing into him with an e-bike while he walked to pick up fish and chips for his dinner has been sent behind bars.

Dylan Green, 19, was riding a Sur-Ron electric motorbike with a pillion passenger and no helmet, dangerously weaving across the road and landing a wheelie shortly before colliding with Bart, who made sure to look both ways before crossing a road in Burnley. Green and his passenger were both thrown off the e-bike but immediately picked it back up and fled the scene, zooming over the pavement as he did so. The bikehas not been located since the crash on March 22, 2024.

Grandfather Bart was left seriously injured in the road and was rushed to hospital for treatment where he sadly succumbed to his injuries died on March 31. Green, 20, of Burnley was today sentenced to eight years and three months in a young offenders' institution by a judge at Preston Crown Court, having pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing. He received a concurrent sentence of 12 months for a separate drugs offence and was banned from driving for 12 years and four months.

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In a Victim Impact Statement, Bart’s daughter told the court: "My dad never spent a night in hospital until that day when his granddaughter took the call." She continued: "We went to the hospital, and we have to live with our final memories remembering him by the injuries you caused. Your selfish attitude was to try and diminish your actions by leaving my dad to suffer so you could get rid of the bike. If you had rung an ambulance instead, today may hold a different outcome for us all."

Bart's daughter also spoke of her dad's role in their family: "You have taken the glue to our family, the man in our lives who would guide us whenever we needed. He was a man of the community. This is not just our loss, people looked up to my dad."

Sgt Paul McCurrie, of our Roads Policing Unit said: "Bart was clearly a much-loved dad and grandad and was well respected in his community. Dylan Green rode his e-bike without a care for those around him. He was driving recklessly and showing off, performing a wheelie just before he collided with Bart.

"He didn’t stay at the scene, call for help, or identify himself to police. Instead, he fled, continuing to drive dangerously as he did so, in attempt to cover up his actions. It was only when he told his family what he had done that he returned to the scene. Driving in the way Green did is not and never will be acceptable. When the worst-case scenario happens, as did on that day last year, it leaves behind a wake of devastation to more people than you would imagine.

"My thoughts remain with Bart’s loved ones. No sentence will bring him back, but I hope they can feel some sense of justice today, that the man responsible for his death has been jailed."

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