Father whose wife and children died in e-bike battery fire demands law change as cases surge
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Scott Peden says he ‘lost his world’ when a charging e-bike battery exploded in his home.
By Alex Ross
A man whose wife and children were killed in a fire started by a charging e-bike is demanding more regulation to prevent another family from facing a similar tragedy.
Scott Peden’s appeal comes as figures obtained by The Independent show there were at least 279 UK fires involving e-scooters and e-bikes in 2022, up from 167 in 2021.
The father-of-two says he ‘lost his world’ when his wife Gemma Germeney, 31, daughter Lilly Peden, eight, and son Oliver Peden, four, were killed in the blaze at the family’s two-storey maisonette in Cambridge, in June.
Hearing an explosion in the night, Mr Peden jumped out of an upstairs window to get to the e-bike through a back door. But finding the downstairs engulfed with flames, he was unable to go back up and rescue his family.
An investigation concluded the blaze most likely centred on a replacement lithium e-bike battery left on charge. The bat...
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