Hundreds injured in Melbourne’s e-scooter trial, new data shows
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Hundreds injured in Melbourne’s e-scooter trial, new data shows
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How many car accidents in the same period
https://archive.is/LiTOj
I do not miss them on the footpaths!!
They were handy every now and then though.
180 incidents requiring medical treatment per 9.1 million trips is incredibly low. Far, far safer than driving or even riding a bike.
I was one of them. Broke my spine. I still think it sucks Lime scooters are gone.
Hahah yeah I cooked myself on one, entirely my fault but the hospital staff WAS NOT pleased. They hated them.
Had at least 3 close calls to getting hit as a pedestrian and I don’t go into the CBD too often. I can see the positives and negatives to the scooters but scary still.
They clogged up the footpaths constantly so you couldn’t walk past easily, much less if you weren’t able bodied. I nearly got run over a bunch of times by idiots on them. Visibly drunk people on them every weekend. When not this, they were being damaged and/or thrown in the river.
I think they’re fabulous and cities and towns where there is space / wide footpaths in good condition. However, it’s been better since they’ve been gone from the cbd. We have enough problems in here without them.
Would never touch them. Too risky.
That doesn’t mean they are inherently a safety concern – that’s generally the fault of the users.
The thing that struck me is the vast majority of users were young. Those who can, and should, be capable of walking the distances they were being used to travel. And there were easy options of tram travel round most of the trips they were being undertaken. It’s not like removing the hire scooters removed the ability of these people to get around. And half the time you’d see them being used improperly. On the footpath, two per scooter, down the road on the wrong side. Pleased to have seen the back of them. Not saying private scooter riders don’t get up to some stuff too, but seems to be way less than the hire ones.
There was a man and his kid riding them inside the shopping centre near my work the other day he nearly bowled me over as I came in the door.
we should have Tuk Tuks instead. I hate carrying stuff rom the shops
Friend of mine got take out by two of them. Two people on each scooter. Had to go to hospital and cancel travel plans. Couldn’t sit in a plane. Took 6 months to recover
I get why they were banned. I’m very experienced and rode around like a madman (safely) on them while it lasted. But there were so many clips of complete beginners wiping out into people.
I’m not surprised… For some reason they attract complete idiots with no regard for their own or others safety whatsoever.
It’s carnage on the road from car crashes – 13 pedestrian deaths in the same period – but *shrug*….
My coworker got hit by one. The person just kept on going, of course. My coworker had to go to a physio for a year, on his own dime.
I used to walk to work and almost got hit by these fucking things a couple times per week. I’m sure theyre convenient for those who used them legally but I’m very happy they’re gone
I dont get why they dont cap the speed at a slower point, they go way too fast for how easy they are to access
Saw one go straight through a red light yesterday — fast — no helmet 💀
Well this is a “no shit Sherlock!” moment.
Tens of Thousands killed and injured by 125th single-year trial of cars
They’re an enormous success in Canberra. Are they banned from bike lanes down there?!
I was almost hit on multiple occasions as a pedestrian.
Well put em in the bike lanes ffs, are people stupid?
The numbers quoted in the article don’t really don’t paint a picture of an overly dangerous method of transportation. It seemed like any opportunity to paint them as an urban menace by legacy media influenced public opinion.
I’d wager for every incident datapoint they have, at least ten times that went unreported because what was the point? There was practically zero enforcement of even the most basic of laws regarding their safe use.
The fact we needed a trial to prove letting unlicensed, unregistered, untrained and unaccountable users blast down concrete footpaths on motorised vehicles was a terrible idea was utterly mind-blowing but here we are.
‘“These are big, heavy machines. If you jump on a bicycle you know how to ride it, but anyone can ride a scooter without knowing how to use it,” she said. Miller is pursuing compensation* from Lime for her injuries.
Pedestrians hit by hire scooters early in the trial found they were [unable to claim on Lime and Neuron’s insurance policies](https://archive.is/o/LiTOj/https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-e-scooter-loophole-that-left-crash-victim-struggling-to-get-by-20230330-p5cwun.html) if the rider was not wearing a helmet or breaking other road rules.’
*Her injury was in April 2022 – almost four years ago. That tells you everything you need to know about Lime.
Someone must have made some brown paper bag money to have the bullshit trial happen
My partner and I spent years trying to fall pregnant with IVF and in between cycles two teens ran into me on an e scooter. It was so painful. They ran into me head first so I flung my hands up against the handles to brace against impact. The police said nothing will happen unless I went after and tried to press charges again the teens who hit me.
Honestly I had so much going on at the time when I tried to report the incident to the council I was given the run around with some weird form to fill out. I can’t remember if I was able to fill out what they needed for me to report this.
I steadied myself (thanks Pilates) but I don’t think my neck has been the same and I’m so thankful I wasn’t pregnant when hit. One leg was entirely bruised as I flung that out as a way to brace myself from impact. I used to be scared to walk around CBD after that. Even more so when I (finally) became pregnant so I stopped walking anywhere in the CBD in case I was hit.