Linkedin today has:
A Finnish research team investigating e-scooter related injuries has said their data show a higher rate of e-scooter injuries compared to other transport modes analysed in earlier studies.
The new research identified 331 patients with e-scooter-related injuries who were admitted to the accident and emergency department in Tampere, a city of some 226,000 people in Finland, between April 2019 and April 2021.
Data from scooter rental companies operating in the Finnish city revealed that e-scooter riders took over 1.8 million trips during that period, meaning there were roughly 18 emergency room admissions per 100,000 rides or 7.3 per 100,000 km ridden.
While comparable figures are scarce, this rate is much higher than previously estimated injury rates for other modes of transport including walking, cycling and motorcycling, the study’s lead author, orthopaedic surgeon Aleksi Reito, told the news channel Euronews.
“Based on these estimates it seems that e-scooter injuries have higher incidence compared to other modes of transportation,” he said.
A 2007 study in the United States estimated that for every 100,000 journeys there were 10.3 motorcycle injuries, 1.4 for cyclists and 0.2 for pedestrians.
Another study identified injury rates of 2.3 per 100,000 km for cyclists in Australia, while British government figures put the numbers at 0.3 cyclist injuries per 100,000 km and 0.11 for pedestrians.
Research:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamane ... le/2791039
