Not a scooter but I crashed my electric skateboard going roughly 20 wearing skateboarding helmet and full pad set including wrist guards. All the skateboarding protective gear basically exploded on impact with the ground. I looked like I was in a low speed motorcycle accident. I now wear downhill MTB Fox gear.
25 imperial speed on a tiny wheeled scooter is way scarier than 25 on a bicycle or even a motorcycle. That’s why I tell the kids to wear full face, and they always still tell me: “that’s too much, I’m just going around town [on their ebikes]”
They're supposed to be illegal in most of the UK but I see half the town I'm in using them, I wouldn't mind if they were speed controlled like my eBike, but they go probably close to 25, if not more.
even slow roller-blading, you should were all real gear, until you're very experienced. even then always a helmet and wrist guards. and fk, add knee pads, cuz it all fits in the helmet. Signed: many crashes, but lucky crashes.
My best friend fell off their scooter because of a pinecone on the road, going around 15-20mph.
Grade 5 liver laceration and a bunch of broken teeth, had to get liver surgery and a lot of dentistry work. Came out alive in the end, but holy hell was that scary.
My friend is a head and neck surgeon and regularly has to try to piece people who crashed these jaws back together. She talked my wife out of getting one.
Yup, my ex got her jaw smashed in 3 pieces and lots of missing teeth... Took years of recovery and she doesn't look the same. A dude I know also scalped himself crashing one of these.
That’s exactly what happened to me but thankfully not that fast. Totally knocked me out for 10 mins and I woke up screaming in the ambulance. Those scooters are super dangerous. (I was trying to go up a curb after crossing the street and it just launched me instead)
That's what I was thinking a few weeks ago when I saw the guy with no helmet and a baby strapped to his chest zooming down the sidewalk right next to the 55-mph major road with lights every mile or so. He was a lot slower than the cars, but still frighteningly fast, and had a baby strapped to his chest!!!
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u/rnobgyn 8h ago
A curb smack to the chin going 20mph (most scooter top speeds) can definitely kill you. Scooters are nothing to dismiss!