MAG Press Release - £1,000 reward to catch potential road killer

MAG has announced a £1,000 reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of the individual responsible for a 'hit and run' incident near the Squires Café Bar in North Yorkshire, where a car driver left a seriously injured motorcyclist, Matthew Ramsden, lying on the road with his damaged motorcycle.

The incident occurred in Sherburn-in-Elmet. Police say that Matthew was travelling along the B1222, near Peckfield, on Sunday 6 January at around 4.40pm, when he in collision with a car at the junction with the A63. The driver did not stop at the scene.

Castleford-based firm, West Riding Personal Financial Solutions, has also put up £1,000 for information leading to a prosecution. Police believe the car to be a silver saloon - possibly a VW or a Skoda - and it suffered severe rear bumper damage as a result of the collision.

Yorkshire MAG Representative Richard 'Manny' Manton describes this latest incident as a 'line in the sand.' He says: 'The guilty driver showed no respect for the biker's life or property – and also decided to evade the law instead of fulfilling a basic moral and legal responsibility as a road user.'

Manny continues: 'We're offering up to one thousand pounds for information leading to a successful prosecution because MAG isn't going to stand by and tolerate blatant criminality on the highways of Yorkshire - or any other part of Britain. If you know who did this, and you don't speak up, you're protecting someone who can't be trusted by you or anyone else. Help us get justice – and potentially pick up a thousand pounds for yourself. This offender isn't fit to be on the roads. If they are not found, they can do it again - to you or someone you love.'

Please contact MAG on 01926 844 064 with any information. You can speak to us in confidence. We won't reveal your identity – we just want the identity of a law-breaker too cowardly to stay at the scene of a serious accident where someone could have died.

You can visit this site to get further police information about the incident: Police appeal to mechanics as they try to trace suspected hit-and-run driver - North Yorkshire Police

Police appeal to mechanics as they try to trace suspected hit-and-run dr... At around 4.40pm on Sunday, 6 January a motorcyclist was travelling along the B1222 near Peckfield, Sherburn in ...