The mother of a schoolboy killed in a motorbike crash has taken her fight to change the law to Whitehall.

Cassie Pearce handed in a petition to the Department of Transport in London and called on ministers to ban under-16s from riding pillion on motorbikes.

Miss Pearce said she wanted the law to be changed as a tribute to her son Sean Pearce-Weston, eight, who died in the crash on a road near their home in Eastbourne in May.

The schoolboy, whose nickname was Bubs, was riding pillion on a 750cc Honda that was being ridden by a friend of his father.

Sean was wearing an ill-fitting adult's helmet and sustained appalling head injuries in a collision with a Ford Fiesta on the Pevensey bypass.

Miss Pearce was accompanied by her daughter Sabrina Pearce-Weston, 11, when she delivered the petition on Wednesday.

She said the family wanted to lobby parliament to prevent other families suffering the way they had.

The petition was made up of 3,000 signatures collected in three weeks from people in the Langney area of Eastbourne, where the family live.

Miss Pearce was supported by her friend and neighbour Claire Lacey and Eastbourne MP Nigel Waterson.

Fighting back tears, Miss Pearce told The Argus: "I will not rest until we succeed in changing the law - and I'm sure we will.

"I want this as a tribute to Sean. I don't want other families to go through what we have."

Miss Lacey said: "We've had so much positive feedback and it seems things are moving on. The Government may have to enforce more restrictions."

She said statistics showed an increasing number of youngsters were being seriously injured or killed as a result of motorbike accidents.