Sunshine Coast resident captures 72km/h e-scooter speeds after deaths

Queensland police have fined more than 1000 e-mobility users in three weeks as frustrated residents share alarming encounters with reckless riders following two child deaths.

Rick Shaw's injuries following the e-bike hit-and-run. Picture: Facebook.

Sunshine Coast residents have expressed their frustration towards reckless e-mobility use just after the Queensland police have fined more than 1,000 users in three weeks.

On average, more than 300 people have been fined each week from November 3 to 23 for riding a personal mobility device dangerously.

This comes after two children in Queensland have died as a result of e-mobility devices.

Eight-year-old Mountain Creek boy, Zeke Hondow, died after he collided with a 15-year-old boy while riding an e-bike on October 30.

A fundraiser has been organised for the family of Zeke Hondow, who died in an accident on Thursday, October 30.

Fifteen-year-old Fudou Stovell died after losing control on an e-bike on Broadbeach Rd in Broadbeach at 3am on November 1.

Bec Ryan-Mills shared a video of someone reportedly riding an e-bike about 70 km/h on November 27 on the Nicklin Way in Wurtulla.

“The speed ranges captured while approaching a red light were clocked as high as 72km/hr,” Ms Ryan-Mills said.

Ms Ryan-Mills also posted to Facebook footage of two kids allegedly using the same e-scooter on route from Dicky Beach to Caloundra on November 3.

Two children were seen using the same e-scooter in Caloundra. Photo: Bec Ryan-Mills.

“Doubling is not only unsafe it’s illegal,” Ms Ryan-Mills wrote.

“Your children were riding these e-scooters faster than I was driving, alongside, in front of and around cars driving in the same direction.

“The kid in the red shirt doubling doesn’t even have his helmet fastened.”

In a Facebook post on November 18, Glenys Price allegedly observed teenage girls on e-bikes on Ribbonwood St in Sippy Downs who “nearly knocked the post lady over,” leaving her “very shaken”.

“Are you aware they don’t know road rules, keeping to the left, not speeding in the middle of the road on their ebike, not wearing their helmets,” Ms Price posted.

She also urged parents to teach their children road rules “before someone gets seriously hurt”.

Lloyd Cutler posted a video to Facebook on November 6 of someone reportedly riding an e-bike without a helmet.

“It seems that youths or their parents have not learnt anything by the recent tragic events,” Mr Cutler wrote.

Sunshine Coast resident Rick Shaw was also left deserted with arm injuries after an e-bike hit and run in Noosa on November 22.

Premier David Crisafulli and Minister for Transport and Main Roads Brent Mickelberg have repeatedly said they would not fast-track reforms and wait the outcome of a parliamentary inquiry, which is due in March next year.