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“A 75-year-old man tripped over an abandoned scooter in San Diego and shattered his knee,” The Washington Post’s Avi Selk has reported. “A 7-year-old boy near Los Angeles reportedly had his teeth knocked out by a scooter rider. A 44-year-old woman was hit by a Bird scooter in a Cincinnati intersection.”

Peter Holley, also of The Post, has written: “There are no official numbers illustrating how frequently pedestrians are injured by scooters, but doctors interviewed in five cities say badly injured pedestrians are showing up in trauma centers multiple times a week.”

And Wally Ghurabi, medical director of the Nethercutt Emergency Center in Southern California, told Holley: “I’ve seen pedestrians injured by scooters with broken hips, multiple bone fractures, broken ribs and joint injuries and soft tissue injuries like lacerations and deep abrasions.”