{"id":3992,"date":"2026-05-10T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:01:47","slug":"13-year-old-killed-in-e-motorcycle-crash-is-remembered-for-lots-of-happy-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old killed in e-motorcycle crash is remembered for \u2018lots of happy energy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

News of the death of a 13-year-old boy killed in an e-motorcycle crash in Garden Grove on Thursday, May 7, spread quickly among his friends.<\/p>

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His riding buddies keep tabs on one another using a GPS location-sharing app that provides real-time tracking. They could tell that he was riding south on Magnolia Street near Larson Avenue around 9:50 p.m., they said.<\/p>\n

Then came an alert. He may have been in an accident.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t known why the boy, from Santa Ana, was riding in Garden Grove at that hour. Off-road electric motorcycles, which are equipped with pegs instead of pedals, are not legal to ride on public streets in California. E-bikes are legal, but some are modified for additional speed.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, more than a dozen teenagers parked their ebikes or e-motorcycles at the median where the crash happened, now the scene of a makeshift memorial for the boy.<\/p>\n

The street had heavy traffic at times, but amidst the cars, a few teenage riders popped wheelies, with pictures of the boy on their handlebars.<\/p>\n