AURORA, Colo. — Emergency room doctors at Children’s Hospital Colorado say they’re seeing a major increase in serious injuries tied to e-bikes and e-scooters.
“As the temperatures get warmer, we tend to see more trauma-related accidents. That trend holds true in our e-bike injuries,” Children’s Hospital Colorado Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician & Medical Director of EMS and Critical Care Transport, Dr. Maria Mandt said.
E-bike injuries have jumped nearly 184% in just one year for the hospital, with e-scooter injuries up 84%.
“In the Children’s Hospital Colorado Anschutz emergency department in Aurora, last year, we saw 62 e-bike and e-scooter injuries that required trauma surgeon intervention. That really speaks to the increasing frequency of the accidents and the increasing speeds kids are using on these bikes,” Dr. Mandt said.
Children’s Hospital Colorado ER sees huge spike in serious e-bike, e-scooter injuries
Most of those crashes involved high speeds, loss of control, and children not wearing helmets…