Brendan Donohue is blind and worried about stepping outside his front door after recently tripping over an e-scooter abandoned on a Brisbane footpath. A disability advocate says scooters should only be left in designated docking stations.
The latest data collected by Metro North's Jamieson Trauma Institute shows there were 732 emergency presentations associated with e-scooters at Brisbane's three major hospitals between November 2018 and May 2020.The institute predicts the actual number of accidents is likely to be higher, because many people, while still injured, do not require hospital attention.
Paige Armstrong, from Queenslanders with Disability Network, said speed limits of 10 kilometres per hour are needed, along with dedicated docking stations for scooter parking."They are not travelling on footpaths and crossing roads as much as they want to, because they're worried about being pushed over or falling over one of the scooters left lying around."
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