LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — There’s been a big uptick in electrical scooter and bicycle-related deaths. Based on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division, deadly collisions are up 200%, in comparison with this time final 12 months.
This week, a person died and a teen was hospitalized following a crash involving two electrical scooters close to West Heat Springs Highway and South Torrey Pines Drive. Final month, a 62-year-old man died following an electrical bike crash on the intersection of Jones Boulevard and Elkhorn Highway.
Regardless of the troubling statistics and security challenges, e-bikes and scooters stay in style. One bicycle retailer supervisor informed KLAS that though the shop sells numerous forms of bicycles, e-bikes make up the vast majority of his gross sales, including that the quantity solely continues to rise…