Boy died in bus collision after friend unlocked e-scooter, inquest told

Voi's electric scooters parked on a pavement. The company told the inquest that there was no way of knowing how many children were using the e-scooters. Photograph: Esha Vaish/Reuters

A 12-year-old boy was killed while riding a hired Voi e-scooter unlocked by a 14-year-old friend using their father’s account, an inquest has heard, as his family called for stricter measures to prevent children using loopholes to access them.

Mustafa Nadeem suffered fatal injuries when he rode an e-scooter along the pavement and accidentally collided with a pedestrian causing him to fall on the road into the path of a bus in Birmingham on 6 December last year.