The office cites more than 125 deaths nationally attributed to e-bikes and e-motos, says injuries in Southern California have risen more than 430% over four years, and says e-bike and e-moto injuries are now the leading reason Orange County children go to the emergency room. Children ages 11 to 14 account for 61.7% of e-moto crashes, according to the state's SWITRS crash database as cited by the office.

"We don't want to have to prosecute parents – we want to save kids' lives," District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in the release.

"We want to save kids' lives" while the OC fights tooth-and-nail against every attempt to make roads safer remotely usable for anyone outside of a car...

All this just screams that there's severely unmet demand for transportation alternatives.

But hey, "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. Thoughts and prayers." etc...