@offenceregister: Under 18s have been banned from E-scooters The geniuses that decide policies and laws have sprung into action after months of analysing a comprehensive study published in the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) tracked e-scooter injuries among children under 16 at three major paediatric trauma centres (Liverpool, Manchester, and Sheffield) between 2019 and 2024. The study reported: Total Injured: 477 children were treated across just these three hospitals. Tenfold Increase: Annual cases rose from fewer than 10 in 2019 to nearly 150 cases in 2024. Demographics: The average age of those injured was 12, and the youngest was just 9 years old. Severity: 24% suffered head injuries, 13.4% required hospital admission, and nearly 7% required surgery. After spending millions of pounds on outside consultants the Department of Transport finally received a recommendation to ban under 18s from riding e-scooters because they might get hurt. The study also highlighted that fewer than 2% of the injured children were wearing a helmet and now the Department of Transport will be contracting outside consultants to research if there is a correlation between children not wearing helmets and adults not wearing helmets in terms of risk and injury severity. We look forward to those results in the next decade. #escooters #escootersuk #departmentoftransport
