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E-bikes and e-scooters are popular – but dangerous. A transport expert explains how to make them safer

  • Written by Geoff Rose, Professor in Transport Engineering, Monash Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University
E-bikes and e-scooters are popular – but dangerous. A transport expert explains how to make them safernazar_ab/Getty

Last weekend a pedestrian in Perth tragically died after being struck by an e-scooter.

This followed the death of another person in Victoria last month who was hit and killed by a modified e-bike which police alleged could travel at 90 kilometres per hour.

A study published earlier this week also found nearly 180 e-scooter injuries in...

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