Among Injured E-Scooter Riders, Only 4 Percent Were Wearing Helmets

(CNN) — Head injuries, fractures, cuts and bruises: Those are some of the injuries that more than 200 riders of electric scooters — and those who were accidentally hit by or tripped over them — experienced over a year in two hospitals in Southern California, according to a new study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
The study found 249 people were seen following electric scooter accidents at the two emergency departments participating in the one-year st