(Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Kids who ride e-bikes or scooters to school in Broward County will soon have to comply with a new policy. The school board voted Tuesday to tighten restrictions on the electric vehicles especially on school campuses. <\/p>\n
In just four years, there has been a 60 percent spike in e-bike and e-scooter accidents with more than 1000 kids crashing last year in Broward alone. Many of the crashes are serious, requiring hospitalization.<\/p>\n
School Board Member Lori Alhadeff proposed the measure and suggested that riders be required to walk the electric vehicle while on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Board member Dr. Jeff Holness suggested a helmet policy and speed requirement. Orange and Nassau counties have already passed strict e-bike policies with age limits and mandatory safety courses. Orange County bans electric vehicles for students under the age of 16, except high schoolers with a driver\u2019s license or permit. Nassau County allows kids in grades 6-12 to ride only with registration and a required safety course certification.<\/p>\n
Board member, Adam Cervera says some of the electric vehicles are actually motorcycles and a policy is long over due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Kids who ride e-bikes or scooters to school in Broward County will soon have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1171,249,251,250,160223,160222,4043,20730,732],"class_list":["post-402784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-e-bikes","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-jeff-holness","tag-lori-alhadeff","tag-school-board","tag-scooter","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}