"The little girl they are talking about is Frida. She was out playing with friends in the park at the weekend when she was hit by someone on an electric bike. It fell on her, breaking her tibia and fibula bones in her lower leg. She was rushed to the Royal London, where surgeons operated inserting pins that will help the bones heal. But that healing process will take around a year."
"It just seems crazy that they can be allowed to ride through public parks like that, says Ed. I understand how it can make sense for pedestrians and push bikes to share those paths, but for children to be sharing a path like that with an electric bike they are so big and heavy the damage they can do is really significant."
On an orthopaedics trauma ward, surgeons review several recent cases involving e-bike collisions, including a 32-year-old student with a closed left tibial plateau fracture and a six-year-old girl named Frida with a closed tib/fib fracture. Frida was struck in a park, suffered tibia and fibula breaks, underwent surgery to insert pins, and faces about a year of healing. Her father describes the e-bike as heavy and reports the rider appeared unable to stop and landed on top of her. The father questions allowing e-bikes in public parks and notes the cyclist lacked paperwork while visiting the UK.
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