Teen dies in e-scooter crash at Mareeba, far north Queensland

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A young man has died after falling from an electric scooter in regional Queensland.
The crash tragic accident happened in the town of Mareeba, near Cairns, on Tuesday night.
A police spokeswoman told NewsWire, as of late Wednesday morning, the deceased male was yet to be identified.
Local media reports it is a teenager who has died.
The spokeswoman said the police believe there were no other vehicles involved in the crash.
The forensic crash unit is investigating.
The tragic incident is the latest electric scooter crash to rock the country and follows the release of a report last week from doctors and researchers in Queensland highlighting the 'significant risk' to children from e-scooters.
The report, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, analysed 176 child e-scooter injury cases that presented to Sunshine Coast University Hospital between January 2023 and December 2024.
The research found 71 per cent of cases were male, falls accounted for 78 per cent of crashes, while 13 per cent involved motor vehicles.
Helmet noncompliance was documented in 42 per cent of the presentations, 12 per cent involved doubling, and 36 per cent exceeded the 25km/h speed limit.
Further, fractures occurred in 37 per cent of cases, 18 per cent required computerised tomography scans and 11 per cent sustained life-threatening or potentially life-threatening injuries.