Boy seriously injured in motorbike hit-and-run 'not the same child he used to be'

Boy seriously injured in motorbike hit-and-run 'not the same child he used to be' 1 hour ago Share Save Sarah Easedale and Amy Mackrill , BBC Wales Share Save The dad of a young boy left with life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a motorbike has described the "anger" he still feels after the rider fled the scene. Danny Buckley said he thinks about the crash involving his son Arlo, now eight, "most nights" after the boy was struck and dragged along the road as he attempted to cross the street in Shotton, Flintshire, in September 2024 . Kaylem Longhurst, 18, from Nantwich, Cheshire, admitted dangerous driving in relation to the crash and was further found guilty of trying to evade justice on Friday. "I would have been a bit more compassionate towards Kaylem if he did stop and he did help my son who was lying there unconscious," Buckley said. "But because he left him there… and just to pick his motorbike up and push it down the street like nothing has happened, it doesn't sit well with me at all." Buckley was at work about 90 minutes away when he received a phone call from Arlo's 12-year-old sister Olivia, who had witnessed the crash on Central Drive. She told him: "Arlo's been hit by a motorbike, but the guy's drove off and left him." By the time he arrived, emergency services had cordoned off the street and paramedics were treating Arlo at the scene. "I couldn't believe what was happening, and I just remember going straight to the back of the ambulance," he said. Arlo had suffered a seizure at the roadside and was placed into an induced coma before being airlifted to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, with Buckley travelling alongside him. Arlo, who was six years old at the time, had suffered multiple serious injuries. "He had a broken femur, he had multiple skull factures behind his left ear, he had bruising on the brain, he also had some fractures on his pelvis and he had a broken left shoulder as well," Buckley said. At the hospital, Arlo was take...