A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has spoken of the tragic moment his motorbike was involved in a collision with a moped ridden by David Tucker.

David, also 14, of Southfield Road, Princes Risborough, was rushed to Wycombe Hospital with a fractured skull after the crash on farmland in Lane End, an inquest heard on Thursday. He was transferred to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, but died the next day.

The other boy, who cannot be named, had previously pleaded guilty to driving while unfit through drink. He was provisionally disqualified and is awaiting sentence by Wycombe magistrates this month.

The boy told the Oxford hearing: "I was riding along the track. I went round the corner and I saw another motorbike coming towards me. I turned to move off the path to the left. One of the foot pegs clipped the other bike as I was moving off. The other bike was getting off the same side. I carried on going, then I looked around and saw he was on the floor. I rolled him onto his back and I could see he was all cut."

The accident happened when David went to farmland belonging to Sir Francis Dashwood at Lane End with a friend and an adult, Colin Stallwood, on September 14 last year.

The inquest heard that the land at the back of a housing estate near the M40 was often used unofficially by teenagers to ride their motorbikes.

Mr Stallwood of Gordon Road, High Wycombe, told the hearing that he let David and his friend take turns riding his Honda 90cc moped, which could only do 15mph, while he watched. The other boy was riding a Suzuki 125cc motorcycle.

The two teenagers were seen to be riding at separate ends of a field when Mr Stallwood saw the boy with the motorbike waving to him. He rushed across and found David on the ground with blood pouring from his head.

Oxfordshire coroner, Mr Nicholas Gardiner, recorded a verdict of accidental death.

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