All Onewheel electric skateboards are under recall after 4 deaths and serious injury reports
Source: Associated Press
All Onewheel electric skateboards are under recall after 4 deaths and serious injury reports
Updated 1:06 PM EDT, October 2, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — All models of Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards are under recall after at least four deaths and multiple injuries were reported in recent years, federal regulators said last week.
The 300,000 now-recalled skateboards, manufactured by the California-based Future Motion, can stop balancing a rider if the boards’ limits are exceeded — which risks serious crashes, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
Future Motion has received dozens of incident reports involving these skateboards, the CPSC said Friday — including four deaths between 2019 and 2021 and serious injuries like paralysis, traumatic brain injury, fractures and ligament damage.
The deaths resulted from head trauma, the CPSC added. In at least three of the reports, the riders were not wearing helmets.
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