Overview
- An Orange County teen riding a Surron e-motorcycle struck 81-year-old substitute teacher Ed Ashman near El Toro High School in Lake Forest in a crash reported Thursday, April 16, then fled before deputies later arrested him after a home search.
- Orange County prosecutors charged the boy’s mother, Tommi Jo Mejer, on Wednesday, April 22, with felony child endangerment and felony accessory after the fact plus three misdemeanors, and she faces up to six years and eight months if convicted.
- Deputies had warned Mejer in June 2025 after body-cam video captured her admitting she bought the Surron and knew her son rode it recklessly.
- Hours after the crash, body-worn camera video shows Mejer telling deputies neither she nor her son owned or had access to the bike.
- The DA says this is the third parent charged this year in a wider crackdown aimed at deterring minors from riding high-powered e-motorcycles that state law treats as motorcycles requiring a license, registration and insurance.