Chair Abreu asks about mayor's statement on illegal e-bike deaths
Abreu asks if the determination of illegality was based on max speed capability, and Flynn explains that for fatal crashes they have a breakdown, with roughly two of 17 e-bike fatalities involving illegal devices.
I understand it's complicated, and I have a lot of questions on that later.
The mayor was recently quoted in a press release stating that since 2017, more than 45 people have been killed while riding illegal e-bikes, and more than 14 people have died while riding illegal stand-up scooters.
Is it correct that the determination of whether a given e-bike or e-scooter was illegal was based on its max speed capability?
Can you explain in more detail how this analysis was done?
Thank you, Chair.
Yeah, that's right.
So we have that breakdown for fatal crashes.
And I guess just to go to your earlier question, for this year, what we've seen so far is that roughly two of 17 of the fatalities have involved in illegal e-bike.
Three were unknown, so it's possible.
And then for stand-up scooters, six out of 11 were illegal and four were unknown.
So that gives an idea.