40% of escooter riders are injured on very first ride

[Deleted member 4210]

Dang.

That's far worse than I would have guessed.

Study: 40% of escooter injuries occur on the first ride

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That has to be e-share driven,where it's an impulse,no training, no hassle experience. Until they wipe out, and head to the ER.

Easily bought on line too,who's gonna train them or make them read a manual.

"Oh, but it's so easy ! " (I don't need a stinking manual)

And How many have checked their balance and coordination skills lately, before hopping on one ?
Then of course you see many of them bravely weaving in and out of pedestrians on sidewalks, and dodging cars on streets. Ripe for an injury no doubt.

 

[FlatSix911]

Dang.

That's far worse than I would have guessed.

Study: 40% of escooter injuries occur on the first ride

This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitte

thenextweb.com

That has to be e-share driven,where it's an impulse,no training, no hassle experience. Until they wipe out, and head to the ER.

Easily bought on line too,who's gonna train them or make them read a manual.

"Oh, but it's so easy ! " (I don't need a stinking manual)

And How many have checked their balance and coordination skills lately, before hopping on one ?
Then of course you see many of them bravely weaving in and out of pedestrians on sidewalks, and dodging cars on streets. Ripe for an injury no doubt.

A very misleading headline... hardly a valid study.
Should be: 40% of hospitalized escooter riders are injured on very first ride

Researchers from the institute interviewed 103 escooter riders who sought care at Washington, D.C.’s George Washington University Hospital over eight months in 2019, and found 58 percent had been injured riding on the pavement – with 40 percent of those surveyed injured while taking their first ride.

 

[RandallS]

Unfortunately, the old adage of "have you had your first motorcycle crash yet" is still valid. Petrol or battery powered - same issue.

I would think it would be reduced a little bit as there is far better training available now as compared to when I started, but teenagers are still teenagers...

 

[Explorer-1]

Did someone tell them not to take their hands off the handle bar. ;0

 

[jim6b]

A very misleading headline... hardly a valid study.
Should be: 40% of hospitalized escooter riders are injured on very first ride

Researchers from the institute interviewed 103 escooter riders who sought care at Washington, D.C.’s George Washington University Hospital over eight months in 2019, and found 58 percent had been injured riding on the pavement – with 40 percent of those surveyed injured while taking their first ride.

Leaves you wondering how many thousands of escooterees survived their first rides without injury or incident.

But then the presumptuous would jump in and infer the survey showed 40% of ALL riders where injured on first ride and say "Dang. That's far worse than I would have guessed."

 

[Deleted member 4210]

I've seen a number of you tube videos of these e-scooter rides. Some are just bizarre. One was of a lady, who was getting on, looked like her first try, and she got less than 50 yards, and she just fell to the side, like a statute, with her hands still on the handlebars, and no effort to break her own fall, or use her feet or legs to brace herself. I'm like dang, that had to hurt. and who does that ? No effort to balance or break your own fall ? Did she expect the scooter to rebound on its own, back to upright position ???

 

[Deleted member 4210]

Leaves you wondering how many thousands of escooterees survived their first rides without injury or incident.

and yet how many more went undocumented, got injured and were too damn embarrassed to head to the ER ???

 

[fooferdoggie]

I bought my first e scooter a stand up scooter and it was a little wobbly at first but it was not hard to ride. I have never ad a issue with it. I had a sit down e scooter called urb-e and I fell over sideways the nI accident popped a wheelie then when I slid on train tracks. most stand up scooters are really easy to ride but I guess years of commuting taught me how to ride things on the road.

 

[Asher]

The headline is false. Read the original article or study, and it's 40% of injuries happen on the first ride. So there could be a million rides, and 100 injuries, and 40 of those inuries were of people taking their first ride.

 

[Handlebars]

40% of injured escooter riders presenting at the hospital were on their very first ride​

 

[Handlebars]

I wonder what % of them caused someone else to be involved in their accident

 

[john peck]

Evolution in action