The spring has arrived in Lithuania with people in cities returning to riding their electric scooters. Legislators in the Seimas have proposed to regulate the use of e-scooters in urban traffic, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT and Giedrė Skridailaitė report.
A group of Lithuanian parliament members is proposing that riders should wear a helmet, as well as a vest with reflective elements at night. They also want to ban e-scooters from pedestrian crossings and sidewalks.
«It would be forbidden to ride scooters on pavements. Why? Because, according to medical data, 55 percent or more of those injured in accidents involving scooters are pedestrians,» said Julius Sabatauskas, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas.
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According to the medics, the number of those injured in scooter accidents is rising every year.
«Brain, head, and face injuries are the most common. Some of them are life-threatening, and others are aesthetically unpleasant. With hand injuries, we have noticed that falling off a scooter very rarely results in wounds alone,» said Paulius Uksas, head of the Emergency Department at the Republican Vilnius University Hospital.
The article originally appeared on LRT English: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1670111/helmets-and-speed-limits-could-scooter-related-injuries-be-curbed
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