Bundaberg e-scooter crash: Man, 57, sufferers serious head injuries

The horror run of e-scooter crashes in Queensland is continuing with a 57-year-old man suffering serious head injuries after an accident overnight. DETAILS

A 57-year-old man was seriously injured following an e-scooter crash at Bundaberg overnight, May 30.

A 57-year-old man was seriously injured after a crash at Bundaberg on Thursday night.

Police said at approximately 6.50pm, an e-scooter was travelling west along a footpath on Quay Street when it left the path and crashed.

The rider, a 57-year-old Bundaberg North man, was taken to Bundaberg Hospital with serious head injuries.

Witnesses or anyone with CCTV or dashcam vision is urged to come forward.

Last month, this publication recorded there had been 27 crashes and falls involving e-scooters (these are reported call outs – it’s understood the number of unreported incidents along with GP and emergency department visits is higher) in Queensland in just 20 days.

Loved ones of Jakob Lavaring, the 14-year-old boy who tragically died following an e-scooter Bundaberg, are mourning the loss of ‘a kid who lit up every room he entered’.

The most serious of those resulted in the tragic death of a teenage boy at Bundaberg.

Jakob Lavaring was critically injured while riding his e-scooter and colliding with a car at Walkervale on the afternoon of April 3.

“He was just being a kid that was very young … at that age you just don’t think of the consequences of what happens,” Jess Graham, a close friend of Jakob’s mother, Michelle said at the time.

“He was hanging out with his friends on a school holidays, he wasn’t being an idiot he just made the wrong decision at the wrong time. “And unfortunately he was hit by a car, which is obviously going to change the life of the driver.”

His family later made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support.

Investigations into the latest e-scooter crash are continuing by the Forensic Crash Unit.

If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting or call 131 444.