The photo of the e-bike shown is the not the kind that causes the wrecks, those are so called 'fat-bikes' that don't have a governor, are ridiculously fast and don't work in assist mode. They're essentially just battery powered motor cycles.

Kids around where I live ride them without helmets and not that long ago one was killed right next door because of riding into a stationary car. It is really on the parents that let kids have these devices without considering the risks.

There is a big discussion in NL powered by one particularly dumb minister about whether or not these can be banned or not, because it is supposedly a gray area in the law but it really isn't: these are illegal under the law as it is and could be confiscated and destroyed the only thing missing is the will to do so. I wonder how many more kids will have to be killed before they will realize that there is a difference between a regular e-bike and these.