Teen dies after electric dirt bike crash on the Gold Coast

A teen has died aft an e-bike clang connected nan Gold Coast this morning.

The 15-year-old boy from Worongary was riding an electrical ungraded motorcycle on Broadbeach Boulevard successful Broadbeach astir 3am erstwhile he mislaid power extracurricular nan section surf lifesaving club.

Police said he deed a raised pedestrian walkway earlier striking 2 poles, nan effect throwing him 10 metres.

He died astatine nan scene. Friends laid flowers astatine nan tract arsenic constabulary issued an urgent warning.

"This peculiar bike, though, is being sold arsenic an e-trail bike. They tin waste for complete $10,000," Kylie Rigg from Queensland Police said.

"They tin recreation complete 60 kilometres an hour, they are not bicycles.

"[Teens] do not person nan accomplishment level, they do not person nan protective clothing to thrust them."

Investigators are probing if nan rider was going excessively accelerated and constabulary are appealing for witnesses.

Legal e-bikes tin beryllium ridden connected paths unless different signed, arsenic agelong arsenic riders obey bicycle rules specified arsenic wearing a helmet.

They must person a maximum continuous powerfulness output of 250 watts and beryllium pedal-powered pinch centrifugal assistance up to 25km/h.

There are nary property limits for riding e-bikes successful Queensland.

Bike motors pinch much than 250 watts are illegal, arsenic are throttle-powered bikes without pedals, which are technically electrical motorcycles and require registration, security and a licence and cannot beryllium ridden connected paths.

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