Boy, 10, left with ‘nose hanging off’ after e-bike crashes into him and driver flees

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1. Absolutely disgusting, year inevitable the way people rode these illegally modified bikes. They need to be taken off the streets.

2. Unlicensed electric motorbike crashes into child fixed the headline.

3. They need licencing like any other motorised vehicle. With their own motor speed classification, mot, licence, plate insurance.

   They are a great mode of transport for some.

   The least they could do is require a basic road proficiency theory test & have the bikes registered and insured.

4. Confiscation and on the spot fine at a decent amount to make it worth police time.

5. This is obviously a horrible accident, but let’s have it right here, every year thousands of children are seriously injured or worse by cars/motorbikes/normal bikes etc – there is an agenda against e-bikes, most of which are legal, assisted pedal only bikes which go the same, or slower than you can go on a pedal only bike.

   If England was flat I honestly wouldn’t care. Fine, some obvious regulation is fine and considering how shit the infrastructure is in the UK for bikes/anything that isn’t a 4 wheeled death machine – but it’s not, and plus shit weather, the deliver drivers have it hard enough, and none of us should judge why they modify their e bikes to make thier life a little but easier.

   This isn’t (go outside once in a while) rampaging e-bikes mowing down pedestrians – this is an accident, and accidents happen.

6. Buy a moped and you need a licence, insurance, compulsory training, protective clothing and a number plate. Buy an e-bike and effectively you can do whatever you like.

7. That’s one of the [over 370](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2022/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2022) people injured daily. But of course we don’t talk about the others because they’re mostly caused by cars, and we have the same relationship with cars that the USA has with guns. We just accept the casualties as inevitable, and they don’t make the national news. The only related thing that does is when there’s any suggestion the government is going to rein in or attempt to reduce car use in any way – in which case, cue the frothing rage and “dey’re takin’ our freedums!” campaigning.

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