dumblederp ( @dumblederp@aussie.zone ) 18•5 months agoafter bikes, do cars, and don’t forget to include pollution.
GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English2•5 months agoInjuries requiring hospitalization per km traveled? That one is probably in car’s favor
tavu ( @tavu@sopuli.xyz ) 4•5 months agoNo, per hour of travel time.
tavu ( @tavu@sopuli.xyz ) 2•5 months agodo cars, and don’t forget to include pollution.
…and the health effects of lowered physical activity, social isolation, stress of long commutes in traffic, inaccessibility of vital health and social services, …and don’t forget all the externalities to supply that 2 tons of vehicle, and fuel, and roads, etc.
Isoprenoid ( @Isoprenoid@programming.dev ) English12•5 months agoTLDR:
Most of these incidents involve males in their late 20s or early 30s, commonly sustaining head, face and limb injuries. There is consistently low helmet use in those injured. Also, about 30% of people who go to hospital with e-scooter injuries have elevated blood alcohol levels. Crashes involving riders under the influence of alcohol are associated with more severe head and face injuries.
Once again alcohol plays its part in clogging up healthcare systems.
BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ) 3•5 months agoI fund people without helmets really weird. I go mountain biking a lot and also some downhill, so when you go to a park, everyone wears a helmet. Where i go some of the best riders of the country train there and they always wear their helmets, not only in the park, but also on the way there. But i still hear the argument that “i don’t need a helmet, i’m a very good rider.”
My sisters boyfriend takes it to the max, ge’s a 43 year old guy with 2 children who ties his helmet to the handlebars when they go on a bike trip, because what if someone sees him and things he looks like a fag? That would be horrible. Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English1•5 months agoTourists and bar hoppers aren’t going to carry around a helmet
rcbrk ( @rcbrk@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months agoThose Dutch hospitals must be packed full of cyclists with head injuries…
Isoprenoid ( @Isoprenoid@programming.dev ) English1•5 months agoThe stats I was quoting were from e-scooters, not cycles.
This 2010 article claims Dutch cyclists have incredibly low rates of head injuries.
This study from 2020 claims there are 13.5 million Dutch cyclists. So around 0.1% of the Dutch cyclist community will have a brain injury annually.
I shudder to think what the rates are for motor vehicles.
oahi ( @oahi@aussie.zone ) 7•5 months agoCars and trucks are linked with injuries and hospital visits [edit: and deaths] of pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooters – but let’s just blame the victim, shall we?
TinyBreak ( @TinyBreak@aussie.zone ) 1•5 months agoI mean. Some of them, yes. Have you watched Aus Dash Cam owners? Some of them have a bloody deathwish. Will grant you the majority seem to be doing the right thing, but certainly not all.
oahi ( @oahi@aussie.zone ) 1•5 months agoIt’s not a choice between blaming the scooter or the truck driver. It’s a choice between building safe light-vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure or car-centric urban planning.
Xtallll ( @Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•5 months agoI’m never going to use a rental scooter, because whenever I would use one I don’t have access to a helmet.
They usually have a helmet attached.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 3•5 months agoWe’ve got millions of the things in my country and I’ve never seen one with a helmet included.
I don’t know what your country is, but I’m talking about Australia, because we’re in !australia.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months agoHah, that absolutely makes sense. They should block these country-specific things from main so they don’t show up for random weirdos! Cheers!
Nothing wrong with foreigners showing up and even discussing what things are like in their country, IMO. Just gotta be aware that the default assumption is gonna be that we’re talking local.
Fwiw, you’ll likely find helmets a lot more often here because we have mandatory helmet laws. Whether on a bike or an escooter, you can get in trouble for not wearing a helmet. As a law it sucks, but it has the convenient upside of meaning these scooters are basically required to have helmets available…when they don’t get stolen.
Xtallll ( @Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•5 months agoThat would be a good idea, but none of the ones I have seen have ever had them.