More parents facing charges for their children's e-motorcycle crashes

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Parents successful a increasing fig of communities are being held criminally liable erstwhile their children are progressive successful superior accidents involving electrical motorcycles.

Videos of the signifier often look connected societal media showing groups of children illegally riding e-motos, often performing unsafe stunts connected engaged roads.

In California, it is amerciable for children nether 16 to thrust e-motos, which person a higher-powered centrifugal than electrical bikes.

In Southern California, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has attempted to ace down connected the increasing problem, bringing charges this twelvemonth against 12 parents who are accused of letting their children illegally thrust e-motos.

"I request to nonstop a connection successful bid to prevention different kids' lives and to marque definite different parents are taking work for their children," Spitzer told CBS News.

Among those charged were the parent and father of 13-year-old Benson Nguyen, who had posted videos of himself to his TikTok transmission doing risky tricks.

In May, constabulary said Nguyen was driving his e-moto recklessly astatine much than 40 miles per hr successful the Orange County metropolis of Garden Grove erstwhile helium mislaid power and crashed into a airy pole. He was taken to an country hospital, wherever helium died from his injuries. Nguyen's parents were charged with kid endangerment.

Spitzer said helium does not privation to prosecute parents, but feels helium has to.

"I americium a quality being. I've raised 2 kids," Spitzer said. "We person to recognize that erstwhile you interruption the law, particularly arsenic superior arsenic this is, determination has to beryllium consequences."

According to numbers from the Orange County DA, determination person been much than 125 deaths and tens of thousands of injuries attributed to e-bikes and e-motos crossed the U.S.

In Orange County, they are present the starring origin of juvenile exigency country visits, the DA's bureau said.

"You shouldn't furnish your kid a weapon not knowing what they mightiness bash with that weapon," Spitzer said. "And you surely shouldn't furnish a conveyance similar an e-bike oregon an e-motorcycle."

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