Real Stories

Real e-bike accidents involve fatalities and severe injuries, often due to factors like high speeds, inexperience, or modified bikes, and include a woman impaled by handlebars, a fatal collision with a cable, and a teenager hit by a car. Accidents also occur in a variety of other scenarios, such as falling on trails, collisions with cars, and fires from lithium-ion batteries.

Accidents involving collisions

• Cape Cod woman: A woman was run over by an e-bike, requiring the "jaws of life" to remove the handlebars that had impaled her eye, reports this video.

• Ameliano Munoz: A 13-year-old boy was fatally struck by a cable while riding his e-bike, even though he was wearing a helmet, say this NBC News report.

• Boston father: A father was fatally struck by an e-bike in Boston's Back Bay, says this video.

• PK County teen: A teenager was fatally hit by a car while riding his e-bike home, according to this video.

• Milford teen: A 14-year-old was hit by a car but was not injured, though he was charged for running a red light, according to this video.

Accidents involving the rider and the bike

• Molly Steinsapir: A 12-year-old was killed in a crash while riding on the back of a friend's e-bike on a steep road, where the helmet failed to prevent fatal head trauma, reports NPR.

• Groton teen: A 14-year-old was severely injured when his e-bike went off an unexpected drop on a trail, according to this YouTube video.

• First-time user: A user hit a curb on a curve in the trail, flipping over the handlebars and getting abrasions, in an incident reported on Reddit.

• Throttle mishap: A rider accidentally grabbed the throttle while at a standstill, causing a small spill, notes a user on Facebook.