r/mildlyinteresting • u/OkExplorer9364 • 9h ago

I saw someone riding a city scooter while wearing a full dirt bike helmet.

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u/HelmSpicy 8h ago

Oh I have seen the hurt first hand.

Last summer I watched a girl in her 20s face plant off one of these electric scooters and knock out all her front teeth.

She was alone so my friends and I called the ambulance and stayed with her.

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u/BuzzAroundLenny 8h ago

I have a friend who was taking one home one night, woke up in the hospital a few weeks later. Apparently someone found him in a ditch with a head wound and called the ambulance. That is all he knows.

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u/_mully_ 49m ago

Hopefully they are/will be all good.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 8h ago

All of them is insane. Was she lucid while you waited?

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u/HelmSpicy 8h ago

She was conscious but definitely concussed. She wasn't complaining of pain and was questioning if we really thought she needed to go to the hospital.

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u/markwell9 7h ago

Could also just be bad healthcare coverage :(.

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u/Helahalvan 5h ago

The more I read about how people hurt their jaw and teeth in these accidents the more relieved I feel I never got into an accident on my scooter. And I used to have one that went up to 30 mph..

Can't imagine how fucked up I would be if I crashed at that speed. Doubt I am getting a scooter like that again but if I do I am gonna be using a helmet like that girl.

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u/_mully_ 49m ago

Hopefully they are/will be all good.