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CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- With schoolhouse backmost successful session, instrumentality enforcement says now, much than ever, drivers request to beryllium alert.
They're besides reminding students connected electrical bikes and scooters astir the rules of the road.
Over the people of the past fewer weeks, stories of electrical bikes person been making headlines.
In Clovis, a teen connected an e-bike was severely injured after helium collided with a truck.
He wasn't wearing a helmet and was rushed to the hospital.
About a week aboriginal successful Biola, 2 11-year-old girls connected e-bikes pulled retired successful beforehand of a van.
They besides weren't wearing helmets, but thankfully lone suffered insignificant injuries.
Now, arsenic students are backmost successful school, Clovis Unified School Resource Officer Phillip Lucero says drivers and riders request to travel the instrumentality and instrumentality other precautions.
"Have that speech with your kids astir conscionable the wide information of riding a bicycle," Lucero said.
The instrumentality requires anyone riding an electrical scooter to person a learner's licence oregon license.
If you're nether 18, you indispensable besides deterioration a helmet.
For electrical bikes, a licence isn't required.
There are 3 classes of electrical bikes.
Classes 1 and 2 tin scope speeds of up to 20 miles per hour.
Riders nether 18 indispensable deterioration a helmet.
Class 3 e-bikes tin scope speeds of 28 miles per hour.
On those, careless of your age, a helmet indispensable beryllium worn.
"As you're riding a bicycle oregon an electrical scooter, you've got to thrust defensively," Lucero said.
He says riders should ticker for car doors opening during schoolhouse driblet offs.
In Clovis, riders indispensable beryllium successful the motorcycle lane connected the road, not the sidewalk.
Lucero says it's for pedestrian information and due to the fact that the bulk of the accidents they spot with e-scooters and e-bikes hap arsenic vehicles are pulling retired of driveways oregon parking lots.
"If they spot a car coming oregon spot a car pulling retired of a parking lot, punctual them to dilatory down, marque oculus interaction with that operator and don't proceed until it's harmless to bash so," Lucero said.
To forestall theft, Lucero reminds riders to wrapper their locks astir the motorcycle rack and the framework of the bike, not the tire.
He says parents should talk with their children and marque definite they recognize the rules of the road.
"If you're going to thrust immoderate benignant of bike, electrical bike, electrical scooter, delight deterioration a helmet," Lucero said.
The territory constabulary section does supply an e-bike presumption with each pertinent information.
Parents tin petition a clip to spot it by calling 559-327-9221.
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