In an accident involving a particularly fast e-bike, a man in Hamburg was fatally injured today. He was traveling with the S-Pedelec on the Tinsdaler Kirchenweg in the district of Altona, according to the police, when he crashed. Rescuers resuscitated him. He died a short time later in a clinic. How it came to the accident is still unclear. The police found rat traps on the roadside. Whether they triggered the fall is part of the investigation, it said.
In S-Pedelecs the S stands for speed, that is speed. While the pedal assist stops at standard electric bikes at 25 km / h, it works with S-Pedelecs up to 45 km / h. Even during the daylight is mandatory for such an e-bike. S-pedelecs are no longer in terms of traffic law as a bicycle, but as a moped.
E-bike stopped at 65 km / h
Also in Vienna there was an incident with an e-bike: The police pulled last night in the Josefstadt an e-bike driver from the traffic, who had auffrisiert his bike to 70 km / h. He drove up the Hernalser Gürtel at 65 km / h uphill, without pedaling. He has to count on numerous ads.
