Doctors raise alarm over rising e-scooter injuries among children
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Yeah, rentals are a bit of a nuance around here too, but probably because they are still a novelty for many.
IMO, if you’re the type of person who rents often, it’s probably better to buy an e-scooter. The convenience, money saved, and comfort/performance benefits are going to be a massive advantage.
But I’d rather see idiots on rental e-scooters than idiots in multi-ton cars.
It’s a nuisance everywhe but they must be making bank to be able to absorb all the losses from trashed scooters.
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She said collisions with motor vehicles is definitely the most dangerous aspect, but in all situations, these scooters require a certain level of skill and balance.
I love how they’re going out of their way to not admit this whole article is actually about cars running over kids on scooters.
I hate how much we protect drivers from accountability for their actions. If I go out and stab a kid for no reason I’m in jail for decades. If I run over enough kids on scooters they’ll write whole-ass articles arguing that “scooters are unsafe”
But that is not even what the article is saying. Read what you quoted. The article is about kids to young to legally ride these riding them and getting in accidents. Or they require a helmet and don’t wear one. The bikes have helmets attached to them why cant the scooters.
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That’s your takeaway from this? Alarming rise in head injuries aren’t related to lack of helmet culture, but infrastructure?
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What province? As some, private escooters are technically illegal to ride on the road or sidewalk they made exceptions for the company ones.
What province?
Ontario, which allows them under a pilot project for any municipalities who participate. In my case, I believe all of Durham Region allows them.
Honestly, people should care less about e-scooters and more about the cars who are actually killing people. And the gas powered MOTORCYCLES on pedestrian and cycle trails.
Edit: I was using my e-scooter(s) before the Region participated in the pilot, and was never harassed about it. I also don’t ride like a jackass, so there wouldn’t have been anything for anyone to complain about.
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But that is not even what the article is saying. Read what you quoted. The article is about kids to young to legally ride these riding them and getting in accidents. Or they require a helmet and don’t wear one. The bikes have helmets attached to them why cant the scooters.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that cars are running over these kids. Kids are naive and trust that cars aren’t trying to run then over so they’ll make stupid decisions (for our car brained society that lets people drive until they drop dead without annual testing).
Then look at the types of injuries, you’re not cracking your skull or lacerating your abdomen falling off a kid’s scooter that basically go human running speed (18-30km/h) MAX.
Then we have doctors taking about “sprains” and “concussions” typical falling off your e scooter injuries, but that the worst injuries are car related and it’s pretty easy to see what’s happening even with the blatant pro car bias this article has.
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That’s your takeaway from this? Alarming rise in head injuries aren’t related to lack of helmet culture, but infrastructure?
Falls can be caused due to shitty infrastructure. Absolutely we need to improve helmet culture, but better infrastructure improves safety overall.
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I only see 1 in 10 kids wearing a helmet
I see a lot of people wearing helmets on bikes or ebikes. Not sure i have ever seen someone with a helmet on a scooter.
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I see a lot of people wearing helmets on bikes or ebikes. Not sure i have ever seen someone with a helmet on a scooter.
I’m one of them! Only takes one bad blow to the head to kill or cripple you for life, no thank you.
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That’s your takeaway from this? Alarming rise in head injuries aren’t related to lack of helmet culture, but infrastructure?
Yes, infrastructure is all designed for cars. Even footpaths are designed around cars. Though they could also require scooters to have larger wheels.
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Falls can be caused due to shitty infrastructure. Absolutely we need to improve helmet culture, but better infrastructure improves safety overall.
Sure, yes. Obviously we want better quality paving, marked crossings, and safe places to use scooters.
However, it was pretty clear from the article that these injuries are due in large part to:
- Unrestricted speeds on scooters and
- A lack of helmet awareness with kids riding these scooters.
I’m not saying the infrastructure being improved wouldn’t help, but you can upgrade it (the infrastructure) as much as you like, but head injuries will still occur unless kids start wearing helmets.
