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Accidents in Switzerland: electric scooters are practical but dangerous (www.swissinfo.ch)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The number of accidents involving electric scooters has increased 20-fold in a short space of time. The Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA) expects 3,500 accidents this year.

Practical, easy to transport and inexpensive to maintain, electric scooters are easy to hire in Switzerland’s major cities. Their many advantages mean that they are very popular with different age groups, SUVA noted on Thursday.

On the other hand, they are contributing to an increase in the number of accidents. According to insurance statistics, almost 2,300 accidents involving these vehicles occurred in 2021. In 2018, only around 100 accidents were recorded. ...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Those numbers are worthless without a comparison of the number of used scooters. Because ofc 2018 only very few accidents happened because they were not yet this popular.

Plus with light traffic its very important to specify what kind of accidents did happen, who was at fault and so on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Did you know that the rate of plane crashes sky-rocketed after the early 1900s? There were barely any before. Wonder why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think they are indeed pretty dangerous, but I agree that the numbers they give are meaningless. It would be great to see a well-done statistical comparison between different transportation modes.