The Minnesota House appears likely to support legislation to classify electric motorcycles known as “e-motos” as different from bicycles and to ban their use on sidewalks.
The push for the change comes in part from what happened to Janet Stotko on a summer evening in 2024. Stotko was on a walk in Hastings when an electric motorcycle going 25 to 30 miles per hour on the sidewalk struck her from behind.
Police body cam footage showed Stotko lying on her back on the concrete, a pool of blood forming around her head. An officer crouched over her with a handful of gauze. Another officer who was recording the scene pulled a black e-moto off the sidewalk…