SAFETY ALERT: Injuries, deaths rising from e-bikes scooters, cycles

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – In the aftermath of two Columbia County traffic deaths involving electric two-wheeled vehicles, we’re looking at the rising number of injuries on electric mopeds, scooters, dirt bikes and motorcycles.

Kenneth Faile-Hood, an eighth-grader at Harlem Middle School, died a little over a week ago in an electric dirt-bike crash on Appling Harlem Road. He hit a tree limb on the shoulder and was thrown from the vehicle, according to authorities.

And 64-year-old Sam Dees died from injuries he suffered earlier this week in an e-bike accident at Washington Road and Hightower Drive in Martinez…

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