Where's The 'Mystery' Here?

                         

It can only be the identity of the driver, since the story itself holds many clues on why it happened:

Jacob Calland was riding an e-scooter with a friend before it collided with a car in Wythenshawe, Manchester, back in March.

 Illegal scooter, ridden unsafely...

Carly described her son as "very loving, headstrong, and a cheeky chappy".

Translation: A feral nightmare in the neighbourhood.

"He knew what he wanted in life and he was always going to go for it," she said.

 So, a typical modern teenager, brimming with undeserved self-esteem and indulged in this attitude by his family (and by family, it seems the only one eager to ralk to the press is the mother, there's no mention of a father, which could be another clue)

In conversations with Jacob, the mum said she had warned him not to get on e-bikes or electric scooters, because "he didn't have road sense on his feet never mind on something as powerful as these things".

 Another hallmark of the modern teenager, the lack of concept of personal danger. So there's very little mystery here, I feel as if this is a story I've read time and again. Of course, it wouldn't be a modern tale of woe without a demand for someone else to DO SOMETHING! And so, right on cue:

Carly has now called for stricter regulations and safety measures for e-scooters and said "if I can save one life it is going to be worth it".

 Not if its the sort of life this waste of oxygen was living...

Alongside her calls for e-scooter licences and a ban on their sale to children, Carly wants to see more safety equipment on the vehicles. She said: "When we get in a car we have to wear a seat belt. Why when they get on the e-scooters do they just get to go on them with no helmets [and] no safety equipment?"

This little shit clearly ignored all the existing legislation governing these machines, what good would even more have done?

Carly also wants stricter punishments for those breaching e-scooter laws. The heartbroken mum said: "You think it is never going to be you. I thought the same. I never thought that my son was going to die on an e-scooter.

It would appear you never thought, full stop. And you appear to have passed that trait on to your offspring.