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160 crashes a day: E-scooter clampdown on the cards As shocking new data reveals the extent of e-scooter and e-bike injuries, a Brisbane councillor has called for more regulation to prevent chaos on footpaths
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Subscriber only More than 780 hospital presentations for e-scooter and e-bike related injuries occur on average every week in Brisbane, new data shows. The alarming figures come as the latest draft for Brisbane s e-mobility strategy would force Lime and Neuron to disclose crash data and could see e-scooters restricted in busy precincts like Fortitude Valley during peak crash times. Data and analysis from the Jamieson Trauma Institute identified late at night and weekends were hot spots for hospital presentations for serious injuries involving e-scooters.
Jamieson Trauma Institute’s Professor Michael Schuetz. An off-duty registered nurse was at the scene and started CPR immediately and the girl was stabilised before being taken to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a critical condition. The horror prophecy from JTI, which connects clinicians, researchers, government and industry partners, comes after studying data from the Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection. The institute s linear interpolation from October to December shows a steady increase of road trauma incidents and motorcyclists are particularly exposed to danger. My plea to Queenslanders is prove the predictions to be wrong. Be aware, trauma surgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital and director of JTI, Professor Michael Schuetz, said.