On average eight people a week are suffering life-changing injuries while riding e-scooters, shocking new data has shown, with one third of adults crashing an e-bike needed treatment for fractures.
Despite local trials being cut short for safety concerns, regulation has been kicked down the road, says Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian’s architecture and design critic
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Mustafa Nadeem managed to bypass age restrictions to hire the e-scooter for his ride to school when he struck a pedestrian and fell in front of a bus in Birmingham in December 2022.