Woman, 62, dies after e-bike fall on Warner Avenue, police say

Police are investigating a Saturday afternoon e-bike crash on Warner Avenue that killed a 62-year-old Westminster woman, the Huntington Beach Police Department said in a release posted on Monday. Officers were called at about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday to Warner Avenue at Brightwater Drive.

Responding officers found the rider unconscious in the roadway, and paramedics took her to a hospital, where she died of her injuries, police said. The department has not released her name.

The Mesa Trail in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, in the northwest corner of Huntington Beach. Saturday's crash happened on Warner Avenue, east of Brightwater Drive, in the same part of the city.

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Early findings point to a fall with no other vehicle involved. Police said the woman was heading east in the Warner Avenue bike lane, east of Brightwater Drive, when her e-bike struck a raised concrete curb and she went down. Police said it is not known whether impairment played any role.

The department's Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team is handling the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Traffic Investigator Vishal Rattanchandani of the department's Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team.

File photo: a 2011 Peugeot AE21 hybrid electric bicycle on display at the Lane Motor Museum. Researchers at UC San Diego counted at least 4,035 collisions involving e-bike riders in California between 2018 and 2024.

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Saturday's crash was the second fatal e-bike fall on Warner Avenue this year, and the earlier one was also a solo fall. On July 21, a 21-year-old Westminster man lost control while riding west on Warner Avenue, west of Plaza Lane, and was found unconscious on the sidewalk, according to the police release issued at the time. He died of his injuries on July 26, five days after the crash, and police said then that whether impairment was a factor was also unknown.

The two Huntington Beach deaths come as e-bike crashes climb across California. Researchers at UC San Diego counted at least 4,035 collisions involving e-bike riders statewide between 2018 and 2024, working from California Highway Patrol records, and found that people hurt in e-bike collisions tended to suffer more severe injuries than riders of conventional bicycles.