Scooter and Segway Incidents Across Four States

In St. Petersburg, a 19-year-old driver was arrested after a crash that killed a 37-year-old electric-scooter rider; investigators said the rider crossed outside the crosswalk and against the signal. In San Francisco, a man fleeing officers who tried to detain him on an outstanding warrant struck a street fixture and later died in the hospital; witnesses said he may have been tackled, and the circumstances remain under investigation. In South Los Angeles, a man riding an e-scooter in a crosswalk was struck and dragged by one vehicle, then hit and dragged by a second; both drivers fled, and a reward of up to $50,000 is being offered for information. In India’s Kundapur area, a scooter rider died after a car allegedly crossed onto the wrong side of a highway and hit him head-on. Separately, an 80-year-old Scottsdale man indicted in the shooting of a door-to-door salesman said he feared the salesman, who was approaching on a Segway, might strike him; the salesman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.