Florida Injury Lawyer Blawg
Leesfield & Partners’ Founder and Managing Partner, Ira Leesfield, has admonished the lack of regulations related to the use of micromobility devices since at least 2019.
Nearly a decade later, and Florida lawmakers have crafted much-needed regulations and an exploratory task force to track crashes and other incidents that will go into effect on July 1 if signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“It’s an unregulated problem, which is only getting exponentially worse, really exponentially worse,” Mr. Leesfield told ABC 7’s Juliana Narvaez.
The potential risk of injury with e-bikes has been the focus of newspaper headlines for years as these devices have continued to soar in popularity. Earlier this year, a Coconut Grove couple was reportedly hospitalized after they were hit from behind just minute’s from the Leesfield & Partners’ Miami office by a minor on an e-dirt-bike. The two spent months recovering. In April, the Sun Sentinel reported a growing number of injuries, focusing on an incident involving a boy who crashed into a signpost head-on while on an e-bike. The 11-year-old cracked open his forehead, earning what his parents described to reporters as a “gruesome gash” and a significant scar. The newspaper reported a spike in e-bike accidents at Memorial Healthcare System in southern Broward County with more severe injuries. There was a 178% increase in e-bike and e-scooter trauma alerts from 2024 to 2025. Helmet use among those who were injured is low with 82% of those injured reporting that they were not wearing helmets at the time of their accident.
Last month, on Mother’s Day weekend, 13-year-old Colton Remsburg died in a crash involving a car while on his e-scooter.
“My whole world just changed,” the boy’s mother, Ashley LaChance, said. “Completely. In seconds.”
For Mr. Leesfield, whose 50-year career as a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney has been peppered with million-dollar-verdicts secured on behalf of those injured in “two-wheel” incidents, these changes cannot come soon enough.
“This isn’t about banning innovation, it’s about protecting people,” he said.
If signed into law, SB 382 would require riders to yield to pedestrians, limit e-bike speeds to 10 mph when operating within 50 feet of pedestrians on sidewalks or shared paths, and mandate audible signals when passing these individuals. Additionally, the bill provides for the creation of a task force to monitor crash statistics and data collected by police throughout the state and provide recommendations for future mandates.
“[In Florida,] we regulate the age and education of auto operators and even require insurance,” Mr. Leesfield said. “The E-bike operators and, more importantly, the distributors must play by the same rules.”
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