Children as young as nine have been injured in e-scooter crashes, with three trauma centres reporting that they have treated almost 500 casualties aged under 16.
The centres, located in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, said they had dealt with a rising number of young patients hurt in incidents involving e-scooters. The reported casualties were all children under the age of 16.
The figures point to a significant level of injury among younger riders or others involved in e-scooter incidents across the areas served by the three trauma centres. The youngest children treated were aged nine.
The information was supplied by trauma centres in three major northern English cities. No further details were provided in the source material about the severity of the injuries, the dates covered by the figures, or the circumstances of individual crashes.
The latest known position is that the three centres have treated nearly 500 under-16 casualties linked to e-scooter crashes, amid concern over the growing number of such incidents involving children.
