A 14-year-old boy has suffered serious injuries in an e-bike crash in Perth’s western suburbs.
Police said the teenager was cycling along Stirling Highway in Claremont around 11am on Saturday when he collided with a four-wheel drive turning out of a car park opposite Freshwater Parade.
Police say the teen crashed into a Land Rover Defender. (ABC News)
The 57-year-old driver of the car stopped to help the teenage boy, who suffered serious leg injuries.
Emergency services took him to Perth Children’s Hospital for treatment.
Major Crash Investigators are examining the scene and have urged any witnesses to call Crime Stoppers.
The e-bike involved in the collision. (ABC News)
Wide-ranging inquiry
It comes after a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry into WA’s e-scooter and e-bike rules made 33 recommendations in a bid to make the devices safer for riders and pedestrians.
E-rideables inquiry calls for wide-ranging changes to WA laws
The inquiry urged the government to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify the devices to break the rules.
Its final recommendations were extensive, from calling for better infrastructure to separate e-rideables from pedestrians and cars, to improving data collection to better understand the scale of injuries caused by e-rideables.
The probe was sparked by the death of Perth father Thanh Phan, who was struck and killed by a scooter in the Perth CBD in May.
He was believed to have been the first pedestrian to die from an e-scooter accident in WA.
Thanh Phan died after he was struck by an e-scooter being ridden by an English tourist. (Supplied)
The inquiry’s scope was expanded after a 59-year-old woman was struck by an electric motorcycle in July.
So far this year there have been seven e-scooter-related deaths in WA — more than the previous three years combined.
Following the inquiry, the government also announced children under 16 will be banned from riding and storing e-rideables at all WA public schools from the start of 2026.
Education Minister Sabine Winton said the inquiry report “clearly highlighted that for many, many parents out there, there’s a misunderstanding about what is legal and what’s not”.
“It is illegal for anyone under the age of 16 to be riding e-rideables,” she said.
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