Since electric scooters began populating streets of some of the country’s biggest cities last year, there has been a surge in emergency room visits for fractures, dislocations and head trauma, the CDC found in a study.
But along with the new motorized vehicles has come a host of safety problems and complaints about the lack of regulatory oversight, particularly in places without clear rules about where people can ride and park the devices. Injuries are the bigger problem, with some medical professionalsfound that trauma centers around the country were experiencing a spike in e-scooter related injuries.
The median age for people injured was 29. The majority of injuries occurred on the street, with 29 percent connected to first-time riders and 18 percent involving motor vehicles. Half the people interviewed said a “surface condition like a pot hole or crack in the street” may have caused their injuries. Just over one-third of people in the survey said they would use a dockless electric scooter again.
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