In the spring of 2019, I moved to Paris for a study abroad experience and discovered Lime e-scooters. The world’s first shared scooter system had been around for a little over a year and likely inspired the surge in micromobility solutions—shared and private—that we see today. I loved using them to zoom around the French capital. My host family, less so. And given how much money e-scooter injuries are costing an Irish hospital that isn’t even in a city, their instincts may have been right.

On Monday, researchers at the European Emergency Medicine Congress revealed that e-scooter injuries cost Irish hospitals an average of $2,024 USD (€1,726) per patient. For one hospital in particular, the total overall cost in one year added up to $150,867 USD (€128,650). While for American standards t

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