E-scooters: Half of people hospitalised after accident had little or no experience on roads

The study comes just days after the Government announced its new Road Traffic Bill. File Picture

Medical staff have warned about the dangers of e-scooters as new research shows that 1 in 5 of patients who attended a hospital with a significant injury from a collision involving one of the vehicles were initially unconscious.

Research on 15 cases of serious injuries suffered in a collision involving an e-scooter by doctors at the Mater Misercordiae University Hospital and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in Dublin also revealed that more than half of patients had little or no experience of using e-scooters.