B.C. boy badly injured by child riding e-scooter on school grounds - BERITAJA

Hassan Tawelih was stepping into Chilliwack Middle School past Friday greeting erstwhile he was struck by different student riding an electrical e-scooter astatine precocious speed.

His family said the 13-year-old suffered a concussion, a achromatic oculus and is now missing immoderate teeth.

“He’s conscionable excessively tired and psychologically exhausted from what happened pinch him successful school,” Assan’s dad, Mohammed Tawelih, told BERITAJA done a translator.

“His look was bleeding and his teeth, surgery teeth, were placed successful a integrative bag,” Mohammed said.

“We’re psychologically disturbed; we’re psychologically tired from this situation, seeing our boy incapable to eat.”

Safety advocates opportunity injuries involving e-scooters are becoming much frequent, superior and sometimes fatal.

In B.C., riders must beryllium astatine slightest 16 years aged to run an electrical scooter.

“These e-scooters look for illustration toys, but they really aren’t,” Pamela Fuselli, president and CEO astatine Parachute, told BERITAJA.

“And truthful kids nether 16, akin to what the Canadian Paediatric Society recommends, shouldn’t usage these scooters. They are not toys; they are mobility devices.”

The schoolhouse territory says it is alert of the incident, and an investigation is underway. Hassan’s begetter says he wants e-scooters banned from schoolhouse grounds earlier different kid gets hurt.

“I dropped my boy to spell to school, OK? I didn’t driblet my boy to spell to a spot wherever scooters are being utilized to beryllium arsenic vehicles for training,” Mohammed said.

Hassan’s family says his recovery, including dental reconstruction, will beryllium costly and could apt return months.