There was a time Julia Miller wouldn’t think twice about walking on a footpath. But she now fears stepping outside after a rented electric scooter ran her down while walking in Melbourne and left her with debilitating injuries.
Bruising to Julia Miller’s side two weeks after she was hit by a hire scooter in Melbourne.
She was rushed to The Alfred hospital with injuries including a fractured shoulder and fractured elbow had stayed in hospital for 12 days. She returned to hospital two months later for a reverse joint replacement on her shoulder, but still suffers pain and limited mobility requiring her to take at least five months off work.
Lime and Neuron have almost identical insurance policies for riders and third parties, which exclude any cover if a rider has breached “local restrictions”, such as not wearing a helmet or riding on a footpath. “There is nowhere that somebody can claim anything because they’ve had big bills, they’ve had pain and suffering and significant injuries,” she said.
A spokesman for the Silicon Valley-based Lime did not comment on individual cases, but said it had investigated “any unfortunate incidents in which someone may have been injured”. Lime and Neuron have deployed 1500 scooters across Melbourne, Yarra and Port Phillip, and will pay the councils $1 per scooter per day during the trial – or $182,500 each over 12 months.
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