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The Independent UK
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Matthew Cooper

Boy, 12, died in Birmingham collision after teenage friend unlocked e-scooter, inquest told

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A 12-year-old boy was killed while riding an electric scooter after asking a friend aged 14 to unlock it using an app transferred from an adult’s phone, an inquest has heard.

Mustafa Nadeem fell into the path of a slow-moving bus after colliding with a pedestrian while riding a Voi e-scooter on a pavement in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, shortly before 8am on 6 December last year.

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