A teenager has been charged over an e-bike crash that killed an eight-year-old boy and sparked calls for law reforms.
The 15-year-old boy was arrested almost three weeks after Zeke Hondow died following a collision with another e-bike rider on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
The crash at Mountain Creek on October 30 marked southeast Queensland's second e-bike fatality in a month.
The tragedy renewed calls for the Queensland government to toughen legislation, weeks after it completed public hearings for a parliamentary inquiry into e-mobility safety and use.
Reeling from the fatal accident in his Sunshine Coast electorate of Buderim, Transport Minister Brent Mickelberg in October described it as a "complex issue".
"We've seen rapid evolution of this technology very quickly, but I think it

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