There’s a significant rise in e-scooter and e-bike related injuries that protective gear and slower speeds could help mitigate.
“With great power comes great responsibility.” I never imagined I’d be able to tie in a quote from the amazing Spider-Man to an issue around road safety. But the startling rise in collisions and injuries in relation to electric scooters on our roads make those words of advice from Uncle Ben to fledgling superhero Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, ring true.
Media nationwide are also reporting a significant rise in e-scooter-related injuries — and it’s way more than skinned knees or elbows. Toronto doctors cited the need to activate specialized trauma teams to deal with severe injuries like “destroyed ankles,” rib fractures and internal brain bleeds. Some of these emergency room visits have involved children as young as 5.
According to Toronto media sources, emergency room doctor Blair Bigham warned that: “ users really need to pause and think about how fast they’re travelling in just pure concrete environments and how, you know, the human body against concrete at a high speed. It’s just a disaster.” The legal processes throughout the country are unfortunately just not able to move beyond their glacial pace in dealing with these rapid changes in urban commuting. This, coupled with already overburdened law enforcement capacity doesn’t bode well for changing the trends.
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