A coroner has issued fresh safety warnings about riding e-scooters after a 14-year-old girl died. The teenager died after she crashed into a bus on the road.
Fatima Abukar died on March 21 while riding her privately owned e-scooter. She was wearing no safety equipment when she rode onto the road in East Ham and travelled alongside the minibus. She hit the bus and fell beneath its wheels.
East London senior coroner Graeme Irvine has now written a report on Fatima's death and the dangers of riding e-scooters, which has been sent to Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley. In the report, he described how Fatima died of "catastrophic head injuries".
