A driver allegedly followed a young boy riding an electric bicycle on Lady’s Island and attempted to block the child’s path, according to a police report, marking another instance of the newly popular vehicles sparking intergenerational conflict within Beaufort County neighborhoods.
No arrests were made and the conflict was eventually resolved after county deputies responded May 18 to the Coosaw Point neighborhood, located in northern Lady’s Island near the southern shore of the Coosaw River.
The boy told police he was riding his e-bike through the neighborhood that afternoon when a stranger’s vehicle followed him and “briefly blocked his path in an attempt to stop him,” a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office incident report says, describing the child as about 10 years old. The child became “frightened” and left in the opposite direction, according to the report…