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Group of three young teenagers all wearing hoodies pulled over their faces nearly hit a group of schoolkids out on excursion while I was in the park this morning.
All three were on the same electric bike. And I'll add for the Americans in the audience that riding powered vehicles through parks is generally illegal and certainly illegal in this park. None wearing helmets and three to a bike are also both illegal.
Cant get crushed soon enough.
Meanwhile an infant was crushed by a car in Sydney and no one calls for the destruction of cars.
We literally have hoon laws and regularly crush cars owned by repeat dangerous drivers in Perth.
Someone in Perth died when a car crashed into their house, while they slept.
I hate to see e-moto bikes take the heat, kind of similar (less nuanced) to guns in the US. The tech is cool as hell, and honestly I want 3! And it's a damn shame they're being used inappropriately, something should absolutely be done about it. But I get an uncomfortable feeling with proactive laws. I understand that there can't be any e-moto crashes if there are no bikes, but people could do the same anti social behaviors on a dirt bike. It's a matter of accessibility in my opinion, they're relatively inexpensive and idk about license laws but obviously nobody follows them. Why not just treat them like motorcycles and charge delinquents similarly?