'Dad went out for chippy tea and never came home'

Bart O'Hare was crossing the road on his way to get fish and chips for his tea when he was hit by a teenager illegally riding an e-bike

A man killed by an electric motorbike was crossing the road on his way to get fish and chips, his family has said.

Bart O'Hare, 86, died in hospital eight days after being hit by Dylan Green in Burnley in March last year.

Mr O'Hare's daughter, Marika Mausolf, from Blackpool, said her father was "generous, loving and caring" and she has now called for the tighter regulations.

Green, 20, of Helston Close, Burnley, was jailed for eight years and three months at Preston Crown Court on Monday after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

Ms Mausolf, 52, said her father would normally drive to the chip shop he regularly used on Rose Grove in the town but had walked that day due to an incident which blocked the road he would have driven down.

She said it was "very upsetting" to "relive everything" throughout the court case, with "the pain that he must have gone through being there on his own when it happened".

She said she and her family wanted to "stay strong" through all of this, however, as it was what her father would have wanted.

Preston Crown Court heard Green had a passenger and was riding without a helmet or insurance when he hit the pensioner.

Green and his passenger fled the scene, leaving father-of-one Mr O'Hare injured in the road and he died in hospital eight days later.

After the crash, Green reportedly went home and told his family about the collision, before returning to the scene, where he was arrested.

Lancashire Police said he was travelling 41% faster than other vehicles on Accrington Road, which has a 30mph speed limit.

Footage played to the court showed Green weaving over the road.

Lancashire Police said Green's decision to flee the scene was an attempt to "cover up his actions"

Ms Mausolf said she was "angry" that Green fled the scene, leaving her father - a grandfather-of-two and great grandfather-of-five - injured in the road.

"How could he leave a vulnerable man in the middle of the road?" she said.

She added that Green "showed no remorse, no sorrow in all the court hearings".

She has called for electric motorbike licences to be introduced.

"They scare me now. A bike can go past me and it gives me shivers - it turns my stomach," she said.

She said children needed to understand the dangers, adding "they may think it's great and it's tough being on one but it's not tough when something happens".

Currently anyone over the age of 14 can ride a legal e-bike, as long as it has pedals, does not travel faster than 15mph, and has an output of no more than 250W.

But a large number are being converted to travel faster than 15mph and do not have pedals or brakes, police have said.

'Well-loved man'

Ms Mausolf said her father was "a well loved man" in the community, being like a grandfather figure to children on the street where he lived.

Ms Mausolf said one of her daughters had initially taken the call off police to say Mr O'Hare had been hurt and was being taken to hospital as she was the last person he had spoken to.

She then passed the phone to Ms Mausolf, who went to the Royal Preston Hospital with her two daughters, Laura Grundy and Corinna Morris.

Ms Mausolf said her father was "a well loved man" in the community, being like a grandfather figure to children on the street where he lived.

She said that now the court case was over, "we want to be able to grieve, which we haven't been able to".

The Department for Transport said road safety was a top priority and "every death on our roads is a tragedy".

A spokesperson added: "There are already strict regulations for e-bikes - motors must not exceed 250 watts and must cut out at 15.5mph - and the police have powers to seize non-compliant e-bikes."

"We're also proposing new offences and penalties for dangerous cycling - updating legislation more than 160 years old - to ensure that those who recklessly disregard others face the full force of the law."