Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have found a significant increase in e-scooter injuries and hospital admissions between 2014 and 2018—particularly over the last year—with people aged 18 to 34 years becoming the most injured group. Nearly one-third of patients had a head injury, more than double the rate of head injuries experienced by bicyclists. An open-access paper on their study is published in the journal JAMA Surgery . Electric scooters (e-scooters) are a novel, rapid, and convenient mode of transportation with increasing accessibility across the United States. E-scooter use may decrease traffic congestion and increase public transit use. Expansion of e-scooters in dense, high-traffic urban areas will affect rider injury in unknown ways and lead to new policies already implemented by some major cities. With the influx of e-scooter availability in urban areas, particularly in the past year, we sought to investigate trends of injury and […]