The grandson of a celebrated Southern California surfboard builder died this week after being critically injured in an e-bike accident.

Huntington Beach resident Kolby Aipa, 20, died Tuesday. A spokesman for the city Police Department, Corbin Carson, said that Aipa was being towed by a car full of friends on Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday night when he lost control of his e-bike and was struck by the same car that had been towing him.

Aipa is the grandson of Ben Aipa, a member of the Surfing Walk of Fame and Surfers’ Hall of Fame who died in 2021 at the age of 78. Ben Aipa was a competitive surfer who became famous for shaping boards, inventing the surfboard swallow tail and adding the “sting,” a wing along the rail ahead of the tail, to make the board go faster.

Kolby Aipa had bee

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