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--- transportation:electric_skateboards [2023/10/02 21:35] – [Onewheel] timb
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 https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/29/23896151/onewheel-cpsc-recall-future-motion-crash-death
+== Onewheel E-Skateboards Face Global Recall Following Four Deaths and Multiple Injuries ==
+Onewheel denied its e-skateboard models were unsafe nearly a year before it issued a worldwide recall.
+Nikki Main - 3 October 2023
+All Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboard models are being recalled following reports of at least four deaths and multiple injuries between 2019 and 2021. The recall was issued on Friday and includes 300,000 of the skateboards sold worldwide and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers to stop using the skateboard immediately.
+The CPSC warned in the recall notice: “The skateboards can stop balancing the rider if the boards’ limits are exceeded, posing a crash hazard that can result in serious injury or death.” It noted that the e-skateboard deaths were caused by head trauma, and in three of the four cases, the rider was not wearing a helmet. Those who were injured while riding the e-skateboard suffered a “traumatic brain injury, concussion, paralysis, upper-body fractures, lower-body fractures, and ligament damage,” the CPSC reported.
+https://gizmodo.com/onewheel-e-skateboards-global-recall-deaths-injuries-1850894764