A boy was killed this week in San Jose after the electric bicycle he was operating lost control and crashed, authorities said.
Officers with the San Jose Police Department responded around 1:08 p.m. Thursday to a report of a solo crash near Remington Way and Allenwood Drive, according to a department media advisory.
Investigators said a Magnum Cosmo electric bicycle carrying two boys was traveling northbound on Remington Way when it “lost control and skidded to the ground” while passing through the intersection.
The operator suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital, where he later died, police said. A juvenile passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was treated at the scene.
Bay Area authorities are increasingly concerned about children’s safety on e-bikes as youths embrace the vehicles as a form of recreation and travel. Children have seen the fastest growth rate for e-bike injuries since 2022, according to federal figures.
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against an 11-year-old e-bike rider believed to have triggered a crash that killed a 4-year-old boy in Burlingame last summer.
The San Jose crash marks the city’s seventh fatal collision and seventh traffic death of 2026, according to police.
Authorities did not immediately release the identity of the boy who died in San Jose. The Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner is expected to do so pending notification of next of kin.
It was not immediately clear what caused the rider to lose control Thursday. The investigation is ongoing, and police said they are seeking additional information.
This article originally published at Boy dies after e-bike crash in San Jose, police say.
