{"id":331581,"date":"2026-05-25T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:23:10","slug":"fresno-sees-surge-in-e-bike-deaths-and-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331581\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno sees surge in e-bike deaths and serious injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rising number of children in Fresno are being killed or seriously hurt in crashes involving e-bikes, electric scooters and motorized mini bikes. Local hospitals, police and schools are sounding the alarm as injuries climb sharply.<\/p>\n

\"Designated Designated areas on Fresno State’s campus currently prohibit motorized scooters with signs as shown. Fresno State will begin a ban on all motorized scooters, skate boards and bikes starting August 19 this year. Photographed Monday, April 27, 2026 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com Here are key takeawaysA 13-year-old Fresno boy, Dominiq Puentes, was killed and a 12-year-old passenger critically injured when their motorized scooter collided with a truck at Bullard and Palm avenues<\/a> on a Friday night.E-bike and e-scooter injuries treated at Valley Children\u2019s Hospital jumped from 11 in 2023 to 41 in 2025, with 22 cases already recorded in the first four months of 2026.<\/a>California law sets no age limit on lower-class e-bikes but requires riders under 18 to wear helmets, and Class 3 e-bikes require riders to be at least 16<\/a>.Fresno State is banning motorized bikes, mopeds and scooters campuswide starting in the fall after logging 159 scooter- and skateboard-related injuries since 2023, with 85-90% involving motorized scooters<\/a>Police and safety experts urge parents to check what they\u2019re buying, because some vehicles marketed as e-bikes can reach speeds that aren\u2019t street legal for young riders.<\/p>\n

Original stories by B.J. Anteola and Anthony Galaviz<\/p>\n

This story was produced with the help of AI tools, which summarized previous stories reported and written solely by McClatchy journalists. This content was reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy.<\/a><\/p>\n


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Christopher Kirkpatrick<\/a><\/p>\n

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Christopher Kirkpatrick is senior editor of The Fresno Bee and Vida en el Valle.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rising number of children in Fresno are being killed or seriously hurt in crashes involving e-bikes, electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-331581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331581","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=331581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}