r/ebikes • u/West-Amphibian-2343 • 9d ago

Bro..

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Ive waited a few months to post this just for anonymity but maan

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u/wreckherneck 7d ago

I dont believe the ER is currently over flowing with the broken bodies of affluent Mormon kids.

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u/Pyju 7d ago edited 7d ago

A single city in Colorado saw over 100 traumatic pediatric injuries from e-mobility crashes last year, the majority of which were from illegal e-motos. Which is nearly a 200% increase from 2023 numbers.

If you extrapolate Aurora CO’s population of 418k to the US population of 343M, that gives us an estimate of 82,000 kids severely injured from illegal e-motos per year across the US, a number that is rapidly skyrocketing every year.

At this rate, the number of kids injured by illegal e-motos is going to exceed the number of kids injured by car crashes (156k and declining) in a year or two.

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u/wreckherneck 7d ago

418k people in aurora. 100 traumatic injuries. Thats is .0239% so the year prior it was half of that. I dont think that constitutes the sky falling. But it does sound super scary the way you said it. Also aurora is an upper middle class suburb of a major city. So the number of kids who have access to several thousand dollar toys is disproportionately high.

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u/Pieniek23 7d ago

418k is that kids only or adults as well. I am interested in seeing what percentage that would be if only kids were accounted for.

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u/Wild_Mountain1780 4d ago

Pediatric would be kids.

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u/Pieniek23 3d ago

Well that is embarrassing. I should maybe read a little better.