Researchers Sound the Alarm on Soaring E-Scooter Injury Costs

In the spring of 2019, I moved to Paris for a study abroad experience and discovered Lime e-scooters. The world’s first shared scooter system had been around for a little over a year and likely inspired the surge in micromobility solutions—shared and private—that we see today. I loved using them to zoom around the French capital. My host family, less so. And given how much money e-scooter injuries are costing an Irish hospital that isn’t even in a city, their instincts may have been…