{"id":309596,"date":"2026-05-11T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:08:08","slug":"amazon-removes-high-speed-e-bikes-following-fatal-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309596\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon removes high-speed e-bikes following fatal collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Orange County\u2019s top prosecutor said Amazon has agreed to stop California sales of certain e-bikes that can go faster than state speed limits following a series of fatal collisions.<\/p>\n

The announcement, first reported by KCRA<\/a>, comes on the heels of an April consumer<\/a> alert by California Attorney General Rob Bonta that highlighted a rise in deaths related to e-bike and motorcycle crashes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing a surge of safety incidents on our sidewalks, parks, and streets,\u201d Bonta said in a statement. \u201cTo ride a motorcycle or moped, you need to have the appropriate driver\u2019s license and comply with rules of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonta\u2019s alert stated that pedal-assisted e-bikes cannot exceed 28 mph. Throttle-assisted e-bikes are limited to 20 mph. <\/p>\n

Amazon had continued to sell e-bikes with speeds over 40 mph. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Electric bikes and motorcycles have become increasingly popular<\/a> in the last few years, particularly among teens. But the surge has been shadowed by a spate of deadly crashes.<\/p>\n

Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer has charged<\/a> at least three parents with allowing their children to ride electric motorcycles illegally, calling the vehicles a \u201cloaded weapon.\u201d <\/p>\n

Spitzer noted in a post on X<\/a> that Amazon said it removed e-bikes advertised with speeds over 40 miles per hour after KCRA contacted the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company said it has removed the examples provided and is investigating compliance for similar products,\u201d Spitzer wrote.<\/p>\n

That includes an Orange County mother, who faces an involuntary manslaughter charge after her son allegedly struck an 81-year-old man with an electric motorcycle<\/a>. The 14-year-old boy had been doing wheelies on an e-motorcycle<\/p>\n

A 13-year-old boy on an e-bike in Garden Grove died earlier this week after veering into the center median and hurtling onto the roadway. The boy was traveling at around 35 mph on a black E Ride Pro electric motorcycle, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s new sales limits come as the Los Angeles City Council pushes to keep electric bikes of off most city recreational trails, arguing they are a threat to hikers. E-bikes would still be allowed on designated bikeways, such as along the L.A. River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County\u2019s top prosecutor said Amazon has agreed to stop California sales of certain e-bikes that can go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23728,8487,9610,129978,5324,116950,5304,129979,473,48,52,51,47,50,49,2685,6170,611,19930,16635,2034],"class_list":["post-309596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-13-year-old-boy","tag-amazon","tag-bonta","tag-certain-e-bike","tag-deadly-crash","tag-electric-bike","tag-fatal-collision","tag-high-speed-e-bike","tag-kcra","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-motorcycle","tag-mph","tag-orange-county","tag-speed","tag-surge","tag-todd-spitzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}