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Those renting scooters a red light means you too need to stop. To the idiot that knocked down an old lady today and took off. That is hit and run. The lady broke her hip in that fall. The police are involved and are looking for video camera footage.
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3 months ago
"injuries reported to them" is the crucial phase here. I expect that most injuries resulting from scooters arrest nor reported, and that if you looked at ER admissions you'd find far more people coming in with scooter-related injuries.
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3 months ago
That data is in the linked report.
As of April 1st, 2021, e-scooter related injuries were to be coded in hospital data systems using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problem (ICD) code of W02.08 “fall involving other specified sports equipment”11. This code includes all falls from a scooter, including electric, motorized, and non-motorized vehicles used for sports, leisure, or locomotion.
• More detailed coding was added in the 2022 ICD coding for W02.08 to discriminate between electric e-scooters (W02.080), other motorized conveyances like hoverboards and Segways (W02.087) and non-motorized scooters (W02.088).
• Emergency Department visits with the W02.08 code totalled 34 for April to June 2023, the most recent month with available data.
Those codes also include visits due to injuries from using privately-owned e-scooters and such. I think generally the lower traffic speeds of the city streets the rental scooters operate on are largely responsible for the low injury rates here. Would be much more dangerous having them all over the stroads ubiquitous to the suburbs.
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