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chemgear · 07-03-2019, 12:47 PM

I've seen them in various US cities and people just toss them and leaving them all over the place like garbage. Also never seen a single person wear a helmet as required.

https://www.apnews.com/33f376b91e5945efbcbb2c460b1d0dcc

Boom in electric scooters leads to more injuries, fatalities

“These scooters should not be available to the public,” Hardy said. “Those things are like a death wish.”

As stand-up electric scooters have rolled into more than 100 cities worldwide, many of the people riding them are ending up in the emergency room with serious injuries. Others have been killed.

“On the sidewalks of Paris, it’s a total madhouse. We pedestrians are totally insecure,” she told Le Parisien newspaper.

Bird, one of the largest scooter-sharing companies, dropped its scooters on the streets of Santa Monica, California, in September 2017 and within a few months riders were showing up at the emergency room, according to Dr. Tarak Trivedi, an emergency room physician in Los Angeles and co-author of one of the first peer-reviewed studies of scooter injuries. The following year, Trivedi and his colleagues counted 249 scooter injuries, and more than 40% were head injuries. Just 4% were wearing a helmet.

https://mashable.com/article/cdc-e-s...-head-helmets/

Nearly half of e-scooter injuries involve head trauma, CDC study says

The researchers identified 271 people with potential e-scooter-related injuries during the study. Further analysis of the report combined the number of confirmed injuries (160) with other probable injuries (32). Of those 190 injured riders, 48 percent experienced injuries to the head.

Furthermore, 70 percent of these riders suffered injuries to their upper limbs such as their hands, wrists, arms, and shoulders. Fifty-five percent experienced injuries to their lower limbs.

The study also found that about half of the injured riders suffered a severe injury, meaning bone fractures, severe bleeding, long hospital stays, or organ damage. Broken bones were slightly more common on riders' arms (11 percent) than their legs (6 percent), according to the study.

But what really stands out: less than one percent of riders were wearing a helmet when they were injured.

07-03-2019, 12:47 PM	#22
chemgear Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2010 Exp:	I've seen them in various US cities and people just toss them and leaving them all over the place like garbage. Also never seen a single person wear a helmet as required. https://www.apnews.com/33f376b91e5945efbcbb2c460b1d0dcc Boom in electric scooters leads to more injuries, fatalities “These scooters should not be available to the public,” Hardy said. “Those things are like a death wish.” As stand-up electric scooters have rolled into more than 100 cities worldwide, many of the people riding them are ending up in the emergency room with serious injuries. Others have been killed. “On the sidewalks of Paris, it’s a total madhouse. We pedestrians are totally insecure,” she told Le Parisien newspaper. Bird, one of the largest scooter-sharing companies, dropped its scooters on the streets of Santa Monica, California, in September 2017 and within a few months riders were showing up at the emergency room, according to Dr. Tarak Trivedi, an emergency room physician in Los Angeles and co-author of one of the first peer-reviewed studies of scooter injuries. The following year, Trivedi and his colleagues counted 249 scooter injuries, and more than 40% were head injuries. Just 4% were wearing a helmet. https://mashable.com/article/cdc-e-s...-head-helmets/ Nearly half of e-scooter injuries involve head trauma, CDC study says The researchers identified 271 people with potential e-scooter-related injuries during the study. Further analysis of the report combined the number of confirmed injuries (160) with other probable injuries (32). Of those 190 injured riders, 48 percent experienced injuries to the head. Furthermore, 70 percent of these riders suffered injuries to their upper limbs such as their hands, wrists, arms, and shoulders. Fifty-five percent experienced injuries to their lower limbs. The study also found that about half of the injured riders suffered a severe injury, meaning bone fractures, severe bleeding, long hospital stays, or organ damage. Broken bones were slightly more common on riders' arms (11 percent) than their legs (6 percent), according to the study. But what really stands out: less than one percent of riders were wearing a helmet when they were injured.