CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – In 2025, doctors in the Mercy Medical Center emergency room in Cedar Rapids have treated 34 adults and 22 children for electric, or e-bike and e-scooter injuries.
Those numbers have risen over the past five years as 26 adults and 3 children were injured in 2021. Between 2023 and 2024, the number of children admitted to the ER jumped from 3 to 21.
At UnityPoint’s emergency rooms, injuries have risen from 6 in 2024 to 14 so far this year…