Tragic, yes. But, BBC newsworthy? Really?
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Bet you if the scooter was made by
@Tesla the headlines would have been slightly different. “Man killed in Tesla’s electric scooter crash in Washington DC”.

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so there wasn't a car involved? There wasn't a person driving a car who ran into the person riding the scooter? It was just a scooter crash? No car? No car driver?
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According the story, the scooter hit the car.
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the car did the killing
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As a lifelong cyclist, I will simply disagree.
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When a pedestrian is killed by a car we don’t call it a pedestrian crash
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Ayayayyy
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Can't say anything about the victim in particular, but I've learned to hate those things because people in DC don't ride them responsibly.
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More to come...
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What was the significance of the scooter being electric?
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Weird week! Children died in the Netherlands because a train hit their electric scooter segway kinda ride!!
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Is this supposed to be news? Is this the best the BBC can do?
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