An e-scooter pilot was rushed to hospital after suffering head injuries in a horror Tallaght crash.
Firefighters and paramedics rushed to the scene of the crash on the Tallaght bypass final night time.
One particular person acquired injuries to the head and was transported to hospital.
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Taking to social media, Dublin Fire Brigade stated: “A fire crew with an Advanced-Paramedic on board worked with our ambulance crew from Rathfarnham at an electric scooter incident yesterday evening on the Tallaght by-pass.
“The affected person was handled for injuries to their head and transported to hospital.”
Research carried out by Connolly Hospital, has proven that greater than half of the individuals hospitalised with injuries whereas utilizing e-scooters weren’t sporting helmets.
The majority of sufferers had been aged in their 30s and 40s and had been utilizing their e-scooter to commute to and from work.
Twenty-two sufferers had been handled at Connolly Hospital for e-scooter-related injuries between October 2019 and November 2020.
Of this, 73% of sufferers had been male and simply over half did not have a driver’s licence, whereas 60% of sufferers weren’t sporting a helmet on the time of their accident.
Doctors at Connolly Hospital imagine individuals’s angle in the direction of e-scooters is that they’re seen as a ‘youngsters’s leisure machine’ and never to be taken significantly like biking, the place helmets are virtually universally worn.
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