Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital said it’s on pace to more than double last year’s number of children treated for e-bike and e-scooter trauma injuries.
The hospital has treated 30 children so far this year, compared with 20 during all of 2025.
“We saw 20 in our trauma services in 2025, and we are already at 30 for 2026,” Erin Summa, health promotion program manager at the Center for Childhood Safety at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, said. “So the numbers definitely are up.”…