ED visits for e-scooter injuries nearly doubled between 2018 and 2019

Emergency department visits for injuries sustained while riding an e-scooter nearly doubled between 2018 and 2019, according to new data. Companies began rolling out electronic scooters in major cities by the end of the 2017, and injuries associated with this mode of transport have steadily increased since. In the new study, scientists found there have been more than 70,000 e-scooter-related visits to EDs going back to 2014, but these visits jumped from around 15,500 in 2018 to more than nearly 30,000 a year later. Two-thirds of the injuries overall were in men, while the head was the most common site of injury. Around 1 in 12 of the injuries in 2019 involved some kind of substance use, most of which was attributed to alcohol.