Toulon: a 12-year-old boy dies after hitting a pole with his electric scooter

A 12-year-old boy, traveling without a helmet on an electric scooter, died Wednesday in Toulon by “violently colliding” with a pole on a sidewalk, announced the city prosecutor's office. “According to the first elements of the investigation, he tried to overtake a bus inside which he had several comrades” who were observing him, Toulon prosecutor Raphaël Balland said in a press release. “The child was not wearing a helmet,” specifies the prosecution.

“No contact between the scooter and the bus”

Several testimonies must be collected but “the video surveillance cameras show that there was no contact between the scooter and the bus, and that the bus itself did not make any maneuver likely to hinder the scooter” behind it, according to the same source. The accident occurred not far from a college. The bus driver was neither drunk nor under drugs, the prosecution further specifies.

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The National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory notes an increase in deaths and serious injuries among “non-motorized users, in particular users of motorized personal transport vehicles.” According to the same source, 79 people “lost their lives during the year 2025, i.e. 34 more deaths than the previous year”.