from Christian Lutz am 09.04.2022
PixabayInjuries when driving an e-scooter: study comes to a frightening conclusion.
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A professor and his team from the University of California analyzed the injuries from 1,354 e-scooter accidents between 2014 and 2020. Together with the e-scooter usage data from city administrations, the researchers came up with a high injury rate. With 115 injuries per million trips, this is even higher than that of motorcycles with 104.
The use of e-scooters as a convenient means of short-distance and urban transportation has been increasing around the world. However, simply renting via smartphone apps and driving without any driver’s license or helmet requirement led to an increase in injuries, hospitalizations and costs to the public health system. A study by Dr. Joann Elmore, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Already in 2019 she examined in another study the nature of injuries from e-scooter accidents at the UCLA Clinic emergency room. She found that most of the patients had broken bones and head injuries.