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They were riding it on a sidewalk, through a crosswalk and someone turned into them. Of course.
One caveat I'll say is that depending on how fast they were going the laws should be that they should be with traffic, because if I'm driving and I look right I may not notice someone going 40+ mph on a sidewalk. But even then the law should be "Where do ebikes belong" officially
Someone going 40+ MPH is doing what amounts to riding a small motorcycle down a sidewalk. That's no longer a "bicycle" thing. Imagine the howling and pearl-clutching we would be reading if someone were caught blasting, say, a Honda Grom down a sidewalk like that. Which is already illegal, for obvious reasons.
Just to be clear, "40+ MPH" is wildly inaccurate to the point of being a strawman argument. If the e-bike the kid was on was any sort of normal -- and there's nothing in either the article about the law or the article about the collision linked from it to indicate otherwise -- then it was going no more than 20 MPH, tops.
Let's not downplay how fast 20mph is on the sidewalk. When you're expecting people to be moving at 4mph, 5 times that is ridiculously fast.
Additionally, according to your article, they are capped at 28mph. Which is stupid fast on a sidewalk.
That's class 3. The vast majority of e-bikes are class 2.