7/1/2023 0 Comments Success iceberg sign![]() ![]() The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), meanwhile, counted 53 deaths from e-bike accidents from that same period and it decried the “lack of complete, consistent and reliable data” that likely leads to vast underestimations of the actual statistics. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), estimated emergency department visits due to micromobility products (e-bikes, e-scooters and hoverboards) more than doubled from 2017 to 2021. While reliable numbers are elusive, the pattern isn’t. “A lot of the injuries that are coded (in the electronic medical record) as conventional powered devices are probably e-devices.” Marko Bukur, medical director of trauma at New York’s Bellevue Hospital and himself an avid cyclist. “I honestly believe that we probably are only seeing the tip of the iceberg,” says Dr. Though the record-keeping on severe e-bike injuries is spotty, both anecdotal evidence and emergency, trauma, and orthopedic department interviews suggest that we’re on the front edge of a new order of danger on both bike paths and roadways. Increasingly, some trauma specialists say that is precisely what they’re seeing. They really were going fast enough that something far worse could have occurred. The lead cyclist was on an electric bike, with the trailing cyclist hanging on to it with one hand and steering his bike with the other. The boys were blasting through the intersection at a speed neither of them likely would ever reach on a conventional bicycle. “I never saw them because they were going so fast.” “Honestly, I was going fast enough and they were going fast enough that it could have been fatal,” she told me. But when Glaser later looked at dashboard video from a car that happened to be nearby when the incident occurred, she was deeply shaken. The student popped up immediately and appeared otherwise fine, and he was wearing a helmet. ![]() It was just a road rash, thankfully, mostly knees and elbows. ![]()
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