A 12-year-old girl died after she and another child collided with a school bus while riding a motorized scooter in Massachusetts

"While these vehicles are widely available and, in many cases, unregulated, they can pose very real dangers — especially for young adolescents who may not yet have the experience, judgment or understanding of traffic laws needed to operate them safely,” Haverhill Public Schools Superintendent Margaret Marotta said.

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On Thursday, June 25, two children were riding a scooter together when they collided with a school bus at approximately 4 p.m. local time, the Essex County District Attorney's office said in a news release.

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“Two girls on one scooter, they just went fast and they hit the bus,” one child who witnessed the incident told NBC10, while another recalled seeing the two girls under the bus “on the floor, not moving.”