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E-scooters are linked with injuries and hospital visits – but we can’t say they are riskier than bikes yet (theconversation.com)
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[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago

TLDR:

Most of these incidents involve males in their late 20s or early 30s, commonly sustaining head, face and limb injuries. There is consistently low helmet use in those injured. Also, about 30% of people who go to hospital with e-scooter injuries have elevated blood alcohol levels. Crashes involving riders under the influence of alcohol are associated with more severe head and face injuries.

Once again alcohol plays its part in clogging up healthcare systems.

I love helmets

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

I fund people without helmets really weird. I go mountain biking a lot and also some downhill, so when you go to a park, everyone wears a helmet. Where i go some of the best riders of the country train there and they always wear their helmets, not only in the park, but also on the way there. But i still hear the argument that "i don't need a helmet, i'm a very good rider."
My sisters boyfriend takes it to the max, ge's a 43 year old guy with 2 children who ties his helmet to the handlebars when they go on a bike trip, because what if someone sees him and things he looks like a fag? That would be horrible.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Tourists and bar hoppers aren’t going to carry around a helmet

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

The number of dipshits i've seen flying along south and warrigal at 9 pm blind drunk with no lights and no helmets is amazing. Welp, at least this way they mostly just take themselves out.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Those Dutch hospitals must be packed full of cyclists with head injuries..

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The stats I was quoting were from e-scooters, not cycles.

This 2010 article claims Dutch cyclists have incredibly low rates of head injuries.

This article from 2021 claims that there are 16000 brain injures related to cycling annually in the Netherlands.

This study from 2020 claims there are 13.5 million Dutch cyclists. So around 0.1% of the Dutch cyclist community will have a brain injury annually.

I shudder to think what the rates are for motor vehicles.

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