Electric scooters are more likely to cause serious brain injury in crashes than the notorious motorcycles, according to a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal on Thursday.
Researchers from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, United Kingdom, relied on 38,440 records of data from across England and Wales between 2020 and 2024 to find that e-scooter riders had higher relative risks of suffering traumatic brain injury, internal organ injury, and vascular trauma than motorcyclists.
The e-scooter injuries also disproportionately impacted kids and teens. The study notes that 16.2% of e-scooter injuries were in riders…
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