Who is hurting these poor scooters

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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?

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.