Some jurisdictions are cracking down and issuing citations, ticketing e-bikers for going the wrong way, failing to signal, or making an improper lane change.
and died in July after being struck by a motor vehicle. His devastated mother is now urg-
ing parents to ensure that their young- sters know the rules of the road and are properly equipped before they’re allowed to hop on an e-bike or electric scooter. “One key to safety,” adds Water-
man, “is we need to have you be visible — whether that’s lighting, refl ective garments, or just bright, visible cloth- ing.
“That’s going to help to prevent
potential injuries.” In May, the New York Post posted
a hair-raising video of a satchel-toting e-biker careening into a 3-year-old who’d broken free from caregivers as they were getting out of a vehicle near Park Avenue in Brooklyn.
BROKEN LEG Michael Miller, a retired New York Police Department chaplain, was hit by an e-bike rider in Manhattan as he stepped out of a subway station.
The toddler was taken to a local
hospital and fortunately the injuries were minor — but the incident served as further evidence that Gotham’s mixture of cars, pedestrians, mopeds, e-bikes, and electric scooters can make life unsafe at any speed. New York’s e-bike experience is
hardly unique. Nationwide, cities and counties are passing regulations to enhance e-bike safety. Among them: helmet laws, bike
battery regulations, age requirements, and more. Plug “e-bike accident” and almost any midsize city’s name into a browser and you’re likely to get mul- tiple results — although sometimes the party at fault is a motorist too fi xated on their smartphone. Some jurisdictions are cracking
down and issuing citations, ticketing e-bikers for going the wrong way, fail- ing to signal, or making an improper lane change. Some states have imposed age requirements, and some cities and college campuses have banned the devices altogether. Tickets don’t always work, how-
ever. That’s because e-bikers aren’t required to have driver’s licenses, so there is no practical way to suspend their driving privileges. Federal laws require that an
e-bike’s power rating not exceed 750 watts. In general, e-bikers are allowed to travel wherever bikes can. But their rapid acceleration as they zip through bike lanes can catch pedestrians by surprise. Just ask Michael Miller, a retired
New York Police Department chap- lain who now sports a titanium rod in his leg. The rabbi had just stepped out of
the subway station at 77th Street and was trying to cross Third Avenue on Manhattan’s East Side when he was mowed down by an e-biker, who fl ed the scene. The blow knocked him down, and
Miller was left writhing on the ground with a broken leg. “I’m lucky to be alive,” he said.
N.Y. Times Admits Gaza Boy Hoax
T
he New York Times “amended” a front-page photo of an emaciated
young Palestinian boy in Gaza it suggested was starving because of the Israeli blockade of food supplies. After images of the boy circulated widely online, his mother told CNN that the boy suff ers from a muscle disorder. “We have appended an Editor’s Note
to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition,” the Times wrote. “After publication, the Times learned that he also had pre- existing health problems.” “It’s unfortunate that the international
media repeatedly falls for Hamas propaganda,” said Ofir Akunis, Israel’s consul general in New York. “First they publish, then they verify, if at all,” “You ran a front-page picture of an
emaciated 18-month-old boy to prove that Gazans were starving, when it was known at the time to everyone on social media that the cause of the boy’s condition was a congenital illness rather than a lack of food,” said David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel. “Given your despicable track record,
it’s obvious that you just ran with the most dramatic photo to make your false assertion,” he wrote. Independent investigative journalist
David Collier, who broke the story about Mohammed’s preexisting condition, noted that among the pictures of Mohammed with his family, some clearly show his brother, Joud, who is healthy and does not suff er from malnutrition. Israel also blasted the BBC, CNN,
and the London Daily Express for spreading a misleading story, which it said is “playing into the hands of Hamas’s propaganda war.”
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