BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WBOY) — Over the past several years, accidents involving electric bikes and scooters have been on the rise nationwide, and a Bridgeport mother is pushing for better safeguards after her son was injured while riding one.

Between 2017 and 2022, e-bike injuries doubled each year, and e-scooter injuries rose by 45 percent, according to a study by the University of California San Francisco.

For Karmen Cravens, her 14-year-old son Colton was hit by a car while riding his e-bike around Bridgeport this past August. Colton suffered numerous injuries, including a broken arm, jaw and concussion. Although he's now out of the hospital and back in school, the road to recovery is long.

This wasn't the first accident to occur in the area, either. Cravens said there have been other in

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