SAN FRANCISCO – A 77-year-old man was killed after being hit by an electric scooter while crossing a street in downtown San Francisco in July, the type of serious scooter-pedestrian collision the city’s police department calls “uncommon.’’
Other types of e-scooter accidents that result in a trip to the emergency room, however, are becoming all too frequent across the nation.
The growing popularity of electric scooters – easily accessible for commuters to reach their final destination or tourists to enjoy sightseeing – has been accompanied by skyrocketing numbers of injuries, typically to the riders and at times, to others in their way…