A WOMAN has been charged in connection with a hit and run crash that killed a teenage cyclist in East Yorkshire.

Samuel Joe Brown was 15 when he was killed on the B1230 Hull Road, at Eastrington, near Goole, on the evening of Thursday, September 6.

Humberside Police say he was struck by a vehicle being driven by a 67-year-old woman from Knedlington in East Yorkshire, who has been charged with causing death by careless driving while over the prescribed limit for alcohol.

The woman, who has not yet been named by police, was also charged with failing to stop at the scene of a collision, and failing to report a collision, and will appear at Beverley Magistrates Court on Tuesday, February 26.