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Two people suffered life-threatening injuries Wednesday in separate crashes involving an electric bicycle and a scooter in Boston, authorities said.
The first crash happened just before 11:20 a.m. at Huntington Avenue and Dartmouth Street in the Back Bay, police said.
Officers received a “report of a pedestrian struck by an electronic bike,” police said in a statement. “The pedestrian was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.”
The bike operator remained at the scene, and homicide detectives are investigating, officials said. Neither the victim nor the operator were identified.
The second crash occurred shortly before 1:15 p.m. at Humboldt Avenue and Seaver Street in Roxbury, when a person on a scooter was hit by a motor vehicle.
The person was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. Neither the victim nor the driver of the vehicle were identified.