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<\/p>\nPolice say they’re concerned about the rise in road fatalities involving electric rideables after the death of a child who was riding an electric motorcycle in Melbourne’s north-east.<\/p>\n
A 15-year-old boy, who was a pillion passenger on the electric motorcycle, died when the bike collided with two cars and he was thrown from the motorcycle at South Morang about 5:30pm Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old rider of the bike was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Police said the 15-year-old boy was not wearing a helmet and the electric motorcycle was unregistered.<\/p>\n
The fatality was the 19th death on Victorian roads so far this month and the fourth fatal accident involving a child in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n
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The fatality brings the number of lives lost on Victorian roads this year to 80. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Acting Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing Justin Goldsmith said the incident should not have happened.<\/p>\n
“This is a great frustration for Victoria Police and a great frustration for the community I’d imagine. These things are totally avoidable,” he told ABC Radio Melbourne.<\/p>\n
He said the rise in accidents involving electric rideables such as scooters and motorcycles was “an alarming trend” that posed significant problems for police.<\/p>\n
“Really since the COVID period and the lockdowns there’s been a flood of e-rideables in general, including e-scooters and electric motorcycles and it’s surging across Australia really, so it creates an enormous amount of risk for us,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of proposals before government about how to address this issue. It’s not something that we can attend to purely by police enforcement.<\/p>\n
“It is causing a real surge in injuries as well and in some cases there’s been some fatal collisions.”<\/p>\n
Victoria Police said 80 people had died on Victorian roads so far this year, which is down from 90 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n
However, Assistant Commissioner Goldsmith said there had been a spike in deaths over the Easter school holidays.<\/p>\n
“Nineteen deaths in 22 days in completely unacceptable. Unfortunately, the last two weekends that we’ve had have been particularly bad,” he said.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the South Morang incident or has footage has been urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they’re concerned about the rise in road fatalities involving electric rideables after the death of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,64,63,43216,1154,38911,302703,302704,11224,44,1158],"class_list":["post-624894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-accident","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-e-bike","tag-e-motorbike","tag-electric-motorcyle","tag-fatal","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}