A coroner has called for greater public awareness of the “life-threatening” risks of storing electronic bikes and scooters in the home after an eight-year-old boy died following a house fire caused by an e-bike.
Luke Albiston O’Donnell died in hospital from hypoxia – low levels of oxygen in the body – and carbon monoxide poisoning after an e-bike on charge in the front room of his house in Merseyside caught fire in the early hours of August 4, an inquest concluded.
