When Carly Condon recalls her son Jacob, she always depicts a boy when busy and moving forward.
“He was always wearing clothes, out of the door, with his colleagues all day, come back, eat food, sleep, computer.
But on March 19, Jacob Condukh left his family’s house in Wytheshawe, ManchesterLast time. Exactly 18 minutes after closing the front door, a 14 -year -old was involved in a terrible collision. He was riding as a passenger on his friend’s back E-scooterAnd none of them wore any security.
Carly never allowed Jacob to his own e-scooter and often warned him that he was “was”Illegal and dangerous“. But she says that” Split-Second decision “costs her life to ride someone else’s back, and is Now calling For strict rules around vehicles.
“I was at my mother’s house on the afternoon of the accident, and I received a call from my partner,” Carly recalled. “Honestly, first I thought, ‘Oh now what he has done?”
“I knew that he was knocked, but I did not know – and didn’t want to believe – how serious it was.”
Carly ran at the scene and found his son already in a coma behind an ambulance. As he was rushed to the hospital, he described as a “longest” journey.
“I was just thinking what he has done? Is he alive? How bad it is?” He said. “I didn’t know what happened at this point. I knew he was in a coma.”
When she arrived, the police were waiting. He explained to him that Jacob was behind an e-scooter who was involved in an accident. Jacob was taken for a scan in which it was revealed that there was a big blood in his brain. Medics decided to keep it in a coma, so that his brain could be prevented from swelling and his body could get a chance to relax.
“It was real looking at your child like this,” Carly said. “I don’t even know how to explain it. It was terrible.”
The next week, Jacob was kept in intensive care, where he was taken care of by doctors around the clock. But eight days after the collision, Jacob died after suffering from his heart arrest.
“I found it very powerless,” Carly said. “It is as if things get out of your control, and you can’t do anything about it. You think you are a mother, you need to protect them.
“I feel that when they told me, everything was just away from me. There was nothing that I could do, but just to be with him, tell him how much I love him, and tell him how proud I am on him. I am proud of the fight that he gave.”
About five months from the tragedy, Carley is trying to ensure his energy that what happened to Jacob did not happen to anyone else. He has started a visit to Jacob, aimed at the purpose of changing the law for the use of e-scooters and strict rules.
Jacob’s journey Petition to government Anyone below 18 years of age to ban the sale and use of e-scooters, as well as to make helmets and safety mandatory and ban on carrying passengers. Currently riding a private-owned e-scooter on a public road or pavement is illegal, but they are found widely for sale. There is no legal minimum age to buy a private e-scooter in the UK.
“Jacob never, never coming back to me, so what I am doing doesn’t matter in my life,” he continued. “I am excluding the goodness of my heart to save the lives of other people.”
As part of the campaign, he released a video with a devastating story behind Jacob’s death. She said she hopes that “raw form” others are encouraged to “stop and think” before making the same option before taking out their lives.
“He left the front door and 18 minutes later, he was no longer here,” he said. “He climbed behind that scooter and did not think about the results twice.
“This is the message that I am trying to receive those who take a divided decision – this could be your result. I never thought it was going to happen to me, Jacob never thought it was going to happen to him.”
The Greater Manchester Police continues to appeal to the witnesses in relation to the police collision, and a white after 2015 has issued an appeal to detect the driver of Kia Venga, which believes that they believe that they may be “important information”.
Detective Constable Steve Pennington said: “It was a really tragic incident that has destroyed the family of a young boy. Our thoughts remain with the loved ones of Jacob, and we continue to support his family as they navigate this unimaginable loss.
“We are very keen to talk to the driver of the white Kia Venga, who may have seen the leading moments for the confrontation. I want to be clear that they are not subject to doubt – we believe that they may have important information that can help us understand what has happened. If you are the driver, or know who they can be, please contact us as soon as possible.”
A department of the transport spokesperson said: “Road safety is a top priority. Every death on our streets is a tragedy and our thoughts are with everyone who has lost a loved one in this way.
“The use of private e-scooters is illegal in any public place. Renting renting scooters on the pavement are also illegal and local authorities must have a plan to deal with such behavior.”
