E-scooter injuries on the rise across Canada, data shows

Oh no, a new cheap and efficient method of green travel accessible to the masses! Better spin some fear propaganda to kill that

I suspect that scooters have similar risks as bicycles, more dangerous than cars for non-lethal injuries, less dangerous for lethal injury. And nearly all lethal injury, like 99%, directly related to cars and trucks. Cars are more lethal to drive on a highway than bikes are to ride on city streets. I bet scooter are basically the same, the biggest risk is automobiles.

I would love to see an age distribution for these injuries, because I see food delivery workers in Toronto every day who are riding scooters with completely disregard for their own life. It's just non-stop the most dangerous, dumb shit, and I'm like... do they just not realize the danger? Or do they need to shave every second off that delivery and constantly cut corners to make a living wage?

But what's the injury rate for scooter km's travelled?

We use that to obfuscate car injuries, why do scooters get a different treatment.

We use [injury rate / kms traveled] to obfuscate car injuries
Automotive lobbyists. That's why killing someone drunk driving a car is manslaughter not murder. Scooter lobbying is probably pennies to the dollar of automotive lobbying.
Scooters don't have odometers making data collection difficult. Similar vein, scooter accidents and injuries are less likely to be reported or linked back to scooters than to cars.
Given cars go significantly farther than scooters that likely makes the output number not very useful and possibly harmful from a marketing standpoint. 1/10,0000kms for cars vs 1/100kms for scooters is not appealing.
Scooters are still new. There probably isn't enough data yet. Right now a lot of scooter roll outs are in their pilot phase or recently completed it.
Scooter injuries have significantly more/different factors. I friend of mine needed elbow surgery because he lost balance due to a combination of wind, being tall, catching on a tree branch, losing control, side walk disrepair, and bad luck hitting his elbow on a concrete barrier. And he was sober.
I think the statistics are still cooking.
- I don't disagree; my point is that these statistics are coming out woth an agenda behind them, whem the total number of annual scooter injuries is half that of car fatalities (2k) alone. And two orders of magnitude smaller than car injuries (119k).
  We brush off the massive carnage as daily business (I guess 5x daily) but stress some electric scooters.
  We've got jurisdiction's, like Ontario, actively trying to remove safety features for vulnerable road users, and this messaging is part of that endeavour.
- My scooter has an odometer. I've travelled 1593 km over a year and a bit. I've had about 4 near-misses which resulted in little or no injury and 1 serious accident that resulted in a bad but not severe injury (hematoma and long-lasting muscle strain, I didn't go to the doctor but I suspect it might've been a low grade tear). The bad accident was me crashing into a fence, because I got distracted by dogs.
  I think I'm a bit more clumsy than the average rider, but y'all can have my data to start the research.
Base jumping off an EUC obviously safer.
I am not in favour of car-centric transportation but cars very rarely explode and burn your house down when you sleep. Electric scooters come with a whole different set of hazards compared to cars, but yes, injuries per km does help to add context.
- To play devil's advocate:
  Do you have a clothes dryer in your home? A stove/oven, rice cooker, air frier, oil fryer, etc?
  Those cause more house fires than anything else. E-scooter house fires are extremely rare, and usually only as a result of using non-certified batteries and chargers.
  It's almost unheard of to have a UL certified e-scooter or ebike catch fire.
- If electric scooters catch fire, that's something that needs regulations to fix, but it doesn't mean that cars are better.
  also, Didn't know that Scooters and IDF shared strategies
- That's why we keep anything powered by electricity outside of the house. Who knows when a gameboy could catch fire and explode and burn your house down???

Who is hurting these poor scooters

Big Oil! The bastards!

So I just heard on the radio this morning that youth injures from scooters are up 60% over last year.

Watched some twat riding a rental scooter down a busy road. He pulled out his cell phone and started looking at it. He immediately lost control and went flying, eating pavement with his face. This is not surprising.

On the upside, I'd rather this twat ride a scooter where damage is mostly limited to himself, than drive a car and injured others instead.
- Agreed. I still wouldn’t want to be run over by someone on a scooter. That’s a lot of kinetic energy being transferred for anyone even remotely adult sized.
- Either way, will be out of the gene pool soon.

I live in Albany, NY. I commute on an eBike, in the road, with a helment and follow the traffic laws. My bike even has brake lights and turn signals. Now that school is out, I'm seeing kids and teens riding eBikes and eScooters without protective gear, out in the road not following traffic law at all. I've had a few near misses where I almost hit them on my eBike because they are running red lights. It pisses me off so much because they aren't just endangering themselves, they are endangering me. A part of me wants regulation, but the other part of me knows that regulation is just going to increase the cost of using small, speed capped eVehicles. (Many of these scooters and bikes have motors where the top speed is 20-30 MPH.) I am not stopping to administer aide to anyone hurt riding an eVehicle that openly breaks traffic law.

I don’t know how it is in canada but here in colombia i hardly ever see scooter users wearing helmets. It doesn’t surprise me that they injure themselves a lot.

They don't like wearing helmets moving at speeds where they should be wearing a motorcycle helmet.
Its a mixed bag here, but many people do not. Commuters usually do, but people riding for fun or not going long distances don't tend to. On my commute I see a lot of people with actual motorcycle or dirtbike helmets though, which I hope to get one day since I only have a bike helmet.
When I visited Mexico City earlier this year I was horrified to see people riding scooters with no protection through the insane traffic there. People there don't even stop for pedestrians, I cant imagine how dangerous it'd be to ride a scooter or bike.

I've sustained 25km/h injuries on my arms and legs from my ebike... I try to never go without my helmet while riding, and when I do I limit myself to 15kph.

A fall at 0 km/hr can do the same brain damage as a fall at 30 km/hr.
- I took a dive off a bike on to concrete face first and the thing I remember most distinctly was the sound it made.