{"id":72074,"date":"2026-04-18T06:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/as-e-bike-crashes-send-an-increasing-number-of-people-to-the-hospital-cities-search-for-solutions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:58:37","slug":"as-e-bike-crashes-send-an-increasing-number-of-people-to-the-hospital-cities-search-for-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/as-e-bike-crashes-send-an-increasing-number-of-people-to-the-hospital-cities-search-for-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"As e-bike crashes send an increasing number of people to the hospital, cities search for solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cities look to registration, regulation and infrastructure improvement to cut number of e-bike injuries and deaths<\/p>\n<p>The increasing number of traumatic injuries from e-bikes in the United States has caught the attention of physicians, lawmakers, pedestrians and others.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a shared concern about people recklessly riding the trendy machines, there are significant differences among roadway safety advocates about the best ways to prevent accidents \u2013 including whether the government should focus on improving infrastructure rather than regulating e-bikes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/18\/e-bike-crashes-safety-regulations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities look to registration, regulation and infrastructure improvement to cut number of e-bike injuries and deaths The increasing number of traumatic injuries from e-bikes in the United States has caught the attention of physicians, lawmakers, pedestrians and others. While there is a shared concern about people recklessly riding the trendy machines, there are significant differences &#8230; <a title=\"As e-bike crashes send an increasing number of people to the hospital, cities search for solutions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/as-e-bike-crashes-send-an-increasing-number-of-people-to-the-hospital-cities-search-for-solutions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As e-bike crashes send an increasing number of people to the hospital, cities search for solutions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}