A 14-year-old boy has suffered serious injuries in an e-bike crash in Perth’s western suburbs.<\/p>\n
Police said the teenager was cycling along Stirling Highway in Claremont around 11am on Saturday when he collided with a four-wheel drive turning out of a car park opposite Freshwater Parade.<\/p>\n
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Police say the teen crashed into a Land Rover Defender. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old driver of the car stopped to help the teenage boy, who suffered serious leg injuries. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency services took him to Perth Children’s Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
Major Crash Investigators are examining the scene and have urged any witnesses to call Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
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The e-bike involved in the collision. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Wide-ranging inquiry<\/p>\n
It comes after a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry into WA’s e-scooter and e-bike rules made 33 recommendations in a bid to make the devices safer for riders and pedestrians.<\/p>\n
E-rideables inquiry calls for wide-ranging changes to WA laws<\/a><\/p>\n The WA government is urged to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify e-rideables to break the rules.<\/p>\n The inquiry urged the government to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify the devices to break the rules.<\/p>\n Its final recommendations were extensive, from calling for better infrastructure to separate e-rideables from pedestrians and cars, to improving data collection to better understand the scale of injuries caused by e-rideables.<\/p>\n