A 13-year-old has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act with numerous offences after they ran a stop sign on a e-bike and hit a car in the intersection Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers were called to the crash at around 10:25 a.m., Sept. 1, in the intersection of 39 Avenue and 25 Street, according to an RCMP media release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The youth was riding a non-street legal e-bike when they hit the vehicle. The young person wasn\u2019t hurt as the e-bike and car weren\u2019t going very fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe youth may have been uninjured but was not unaffected by this incident,\u201d Vernon RCMP media relations officer Cpl. Tania Finn said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The e-bike was rendered inoperable in the collision and the vehicle received minor damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The youth was driven home by police who spoke with their parent about the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 13-year-old has been charges with several licensing and driving offences which ill make it tough to get a driver\u2019s licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RCMP are asking parents and guardians to be aware that not all e-bikes are created equal. There are licence requirements for different wattages, which is essentially the bikes power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany of the e-bikes youths are currently operating are e-dirt bikes which have the same licencing requirements as a motorcycle,\u201d the release read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 13-year-old youth is going to have a tough time getting their driver\u2019s licence when the time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":7343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","_duplicate_post":false,"rank_math_canonical_url":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1285,492,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"post_modified":"2026-09-02T13:47:43","post_modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:47:43","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-pexels-f-x-2152154818-32067479.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}