Hospitals are experiencing a growing influx of young people injured using privately owned e-scooters. A new review of three major hospitals has seen the number of cases of children under 16 injured by e-scooters rise tenfold in the past five years.

 

Analysts from the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) looked at 477 patients below the age of 16 who were treated in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield hospitals between 2019 and 2024. In this period, cases of e-scooter injury rose from just 10 per year to 150 in 2024.