Emergency Room staff would probably concur, since scooters came back they have seen an uptick in presentations for injuries which come from a highly unstable platform sharing the pavement or road with other things. People, cars, Buses, potholes, unexpected SQUIRREL events, you-name-it.
Here in OZ, with mandated cycle helmets we had a drop in catastrophic head injury. Scooters have the same legal burden but it's not enforced well so alongside the arm and leg injury, is the rise/return of catastrophic head injury.
Motors only make it worse. I think there's like an inverse square law speed to survivability for bodyshock. Unpowered? you often walk away. Powered? You, or somebody else, is at serious risk of not walking away, ever.
Here in OZ, with mandated cycle helmets we had a drop in catastrophic head injury. Scooters have the same legal burden but it's not enforced well so alongside the arm and leg injury, is the rise/return of catastrophic head injury.
Motors only make it worse. I think there's like an inverse square law speed to survivability for bodyshock. Unpowered? you often walk away. Powered? You, or somebody else, is at serious risk of not walking away, ever.