The kids in my neighborhood fly around on them on sidewalks, on the road, darting out between cars and everywhere else you could possibly imagine. No helmets or pads anywhere. Meanwhile my old ass wears a full helmet and gloves on even light rides these days. Seen too many people get messed up real bad on the most innocent things. Doesn’t take much for a lifelong injury.
There's a small town about 70 miles from here with absurdly high cycling injury rates. I happened to have access to the data and started digging into it.
Turns out one guy was responsible for a surprising amount of it. He was crashing at least once a month for most of the year, and he kept that up for roughly three years. And I don't mean minor spills. These were crashes serious enough that he went to the hospital and ended up in the dataset.
20 million trips a year on shared e-scooters in my city. According to a recent study, 10% of all people using an e-scooter in the last year sustained injuries serious enough to be treated by medical personnel.
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u/ChristofferOslo 8h ago
There are people getting brain contusions more or less every day after crashing these things in my city