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Jan 10, 2024 · Patients hospitalized with scooter-related injuries were more likely to be under the age of 18 compared to those with bicycle injuries (26.7% compared to 16.4%), and more likely to undergo surgery ...
- Arianna Johnson
- The Latest Numbers on E-Scooter Use
- Safety Changes
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There have been 675 crashes involving scooters that required an emergency room visit in Calgary from May 28 — when the city gave the go-ahead for e-scooters to resume rentals — to Aug. 24, according to an ongoing study. Stephanie VandenBerg is a University of Calgary clinical assistant professor involved in the study that has been tracking the numb...
Beltran's accident happened despite improved safety measures instituted by the city after a two-year pilot project. This past spring, it was announced that scooters were here to stay and that the companies, Bird Canada and Neuron Mobility were the chosen operators to put a combined fleet of 1,500 permanent scooters on Calgary roads and adhere to a ...
At this time the city has no plans to change the e-scooter program, but did say they plan to continue to monitor activities, reports and statistics from the e-scooters and will introduce further changes if necessary. Despite the number of injuries that have been reported, VandenBerg doesn't believe the solution is to ban the devices. "What we know ...
Mar 9, 2021 · Head injuries are the most common injuries in patients with scooter-related trauma. In all patients presenting to the ED with standing motorized scooter injuries, nearly 30% of them were diagnosed with head and neck trauma . Such injuries include fractures of the skull, face, and neck; soft tissue injuries; dental injuries; concussion; and ...
- Woon Cho Kim, Andre R Campbell
- 2021
Jan 9, 2024 · Scooter riders were more likely to sustain long bone fractures or paralysis compared to bicycle riders; risks associated with traumatic brain injury were similar among the two groups. During the study period (2016-2020), total annual costs of hospitalizations in patients with bicycle and scooter-related injuries increased by nearly 5-fold, from $6.6 million in 2016 to $35.5 million in 2020.
Jul 25, 2021 · A total of 397 patients presented in the emergency room with injuries related to e-scooter accidents during the study period. There were 238 male (59.9%) and 159 females (40.1%) with a mean age of 30.8 years (SD, 10.1). The demographics and accident characteristics collected are shown in Table 1.
- Alexandre Coelho, Pablo Feito, Laura Corominas, Juan Francisco Sánchez-Soler, Daniel Pérez-Prieto, S...
- 10.3390/jcm10153283
- 2021
- J Clin Med. 2021 Aug; 10(15): 3283.
Oct 10, 2024 · Discover the top 5 injuries commonly sustained in motor scooter accidents and how to protect yourself. Learn how to handle personal injury claims with Holston and Huntley.
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Jan 10, 2024 · Notably, scooter riders were more prone to long bone fractures or paralysis compared to bicycle riders, although risks of traumatic brain injury were similar between the two groups. Hospitalization costs for both bicycle and scooter-related injuries saw a nearly five-fold increase from $6.6 million in 2016 to $35.5 million in 2020.
