Of the 5,189 respondents who had used scooters, 11% reported experiencing an injury, according to The Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) findings from the first year of the e-scooter pilot program.
“That’s 570 reported injuries just from those who received the survey and chose to respond. This excludes the police report data and hospital data,” Seattle City Councilmember Alex Pedersen wrote in his blog. “I shared the concerns expressed by experts from Harborview’s Injury Prevention and Research Center about not only safety, but also about the lack of data from other jurisdictions who had reported problems with scooters.”
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