The Cal State Fullerton’s women’s soccer coach is pushing for more college sports teams to implement helmet rules for athletes on e-bikes and e-scooters after a box truck hit and seriously injured two of his players who were riding e-scooters in September.

Lauren Turner and Ashlyn Gwynn, both sophomores on the soccer team, were riding e-scooters to a men’s soccer game around 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, when a box truck struck them near Associated Road and Yorba Linda Boulevard, police said.

Officers found the women in the street with “significant, life threatening injuries” before they were hospitalized. Turner and Gwynn were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash, coach Demian Brown said Wednesday.

As of Oct. 6, Turner, a 2024 graduate of Arnold O. Beckman High School in Irvine, a

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