{"id":73364,"date":"2026-05-11T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/amazon-halts-sales-of-illegal-high-speed-ebikes-in-california-after-fatal-crashes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:59:01","slug":"amazon-halts-sales-of-illegal-high-speed-ebikes-in-california-after-fatal-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/amazon-halts-sales-of-illegal-high-speed-ebikes-in-california-after-fatal-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon halts sales of illegal high-speed ebikes in California after fatal crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent consumer alert on ebike safety laws says some vehicles should be classified as mopeds or motorcycles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> said it plans to stop selling certain high-speed electric bicycles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> after a string of high-profile incidents and a consumer alert that the state attorney general issued last month.<\/p>\n<p>In April an 81-year-old man in Orange county died after a teenager illegally riding an e-motorcycle struck him. The teen\u2019s mother, Tommi Jo Mejer, has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/02\/california-e-motorcycle-crash-involuntary-manslaughter\">charged<\/a> with involuntary manslaughter in Ed Ashman\u2019s death as officials say she was warned it was illegal for her son to operate the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/11\/amazon-stops-sales-high-speed-ebikes-california\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent consumer alert on ebike safety laws says some vehicles should be classified as mopeds or motorcycles Amazon said it plans to stop selling certain high-speed electric bicycles in California after a string of high-profile incidents and a consumer alert that the state attorney general issued last month. In April an 81-year-old man in Orange &#8230; <a title=\"Amazon halts sales of illegal high-speed ebikes in California after fatal crashes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/amazon-halts-sales-of-illegal-high-speed-ebikes-in-california-after-fatal-crashes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Amazon halts sales of illegal high-speed ebikes in California after fatal crashes\">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-73364","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\/73364","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=73364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}