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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- May is National Bike Month, and Fresno Unified School District and Valley Children's Healthcare utilized National Bike and Roll to School Day to spotlight e-bike and e-scooter information pursuing an summation successful superior injuries involving children.
The territory partnered connected Wednesday greeting with Valley Children's Injury Prevention Program to big an e-bike information league astatine Bullard High School, bringing unneurotic schoolhouse officials, instrumentality enforcement, and healthcare professionals to amended students and families astir harmless riding practices.
The extremity is to bring consciousness astir 3-bike and E-scooter hazard portion educating parents, students and the community.
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Health officials accidental increasing entree to e-bikes and scooters has introduced caller risks for young riders.
"The expanding usage of e-bikes oregon e-scooters brings caller information challenges we cannot ignore," said Dr. Carmela Sosa, aesculapian manager of the Guilds Center astatine Valley Children's Healthcare.
As the availability and usage of e-bikes and scooters person risen, truthful person the injuries.
Since Friday successful Fresno, a 13-year-old lad has died and 2 different children person been importantly injured successful 2 abstracted crashes involving motorized vehicles.
While it wasn't an e-bike successful astatine slightest 1 of those cases, the interest astir the aforesaid benignant of wounded remains.
Valley Children's Injury Prevention Program, a pb bureau for Safe Kids Central California, says injuries linked to e-bikes and scooters person climbed sharply successful caller years.
"In 2023, we saw lone 11 injuries total. The fig of combined e-bike and e-scooter injuries roseate to 41 successful 2025. Specifically related to e-bike injuries, we saw 22 e-bike traumas successful 2025 arsenic a whole, and we've already astir surpassed that fig successful the archetypal 4 months of this year," Sosa said.
In response, Fresno police, the California Highway Patrol and Fresno Unified officials gathered astatine Bullard High School to stress helmet usage and adherence to postulation laws.
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Officials stressed that wearing a helmet remains the astir effectual mode to forestall caput injuries successful a bicycle crash.
"Of those presenting to our exigency department, lone 1 successful 4 riders was wearing a helmet. The value of this is that non-helmet riders person an astir 2 times higher hazard of caput wounded compared to those wearing helmets," Sosa said.
By law, each bicyclists nether property 18 indispensable deterioration a helmet portion riding connected nationalist roads, paths oregon sidewalks. Officers besides reminded riders to travel postulation rules, including riding connected the close broadside of the road.
"Riding against traffic, similar I said, that's 1 of the communal things we spot here. You volition beryllium cited for that," a Fresno constabulary serviceman said.
Officials besides issued a broader telephone for assemblage engagement successful keeping students safe.
"Drivers, delight dilatory down, enactment alert and travel postulation laws, particularly successful schoolhouse zones. As a community, we request to pass and prioritize harmless routes to and from schoolhouse and particularly astir town," Sosa said.
Bullard High School Principal Armen Torigian said the connection is astir balancing enjoyment with responsibility.
"As a schoolhouse community, we privation each pupil to bask riding a bike, but we besides privation each pupil to beryllium capable to travel to schoolhouse and spell location safely," Torigian said.
The lawsuit served arsenic some a reminder of the risks associated with e-bikes and scooters and a propulsion for families, schools and drivers to enactment unneurotic to forestall further crashes.
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