Electric motorbikes 'literally an accident waiting to happen'

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Harvey Evans loved bikes and motorcycles. At 15 he was already an experienced rider, having gone off-road up the mountains with his father every week since he was three.

His family indulged his interest with an electric motorcycle as an early 16th birthday present and last Monday he and his friend Kyrees Sullivan, 16, were speeding around their Cardiff housing estate on it.

At one point, with a police van following them, they appear to have reached 28mph. Moments later they crashed. Both died. Their deaths raise serious questions about the safety of the powerful electric motorbikes and mopeds being bought and used by young people around the country, in some cases, for criminal purposes.

"There is a trend now, no different to 15 years