Posted on 08/19/2018 7:16:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The crash happened about 10 p.m. on East 9th Street near St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said. A Chevy Cruz driven by a 19-year-old man was driving south on East 9th Street when he struck the woman on the scooter from behind.
The woman was thrown from the scooter and fell onto the road, Ciaccia said. She was taken to MetroHealth, where she died.
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The 19-year-old man was taken to St. Vincent Charity Hospital for evaluation, but he was released and booked into county jail. He is facing an aggravated vehicular homicide charge....
Cleveland police could not say whether the scooter the woman was driving was one of the Bird scooters placed around town about one week ago.
A few hours after about 100 Bird electric scooters were placed downtown Aug. 10, the city of Cleveland asked that the company remove the scooters from public sidewalks.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
With all the scooters in American cities, there will be plenty of more scooter road kill.
In 2014, the NHTSA reported 92,000 injuries and 4,295 deaths from motorcycle, moped and scooter accidents across the US.
https://www.workingmanlaw.com/blog/car-accidents/moped-accident-statistics.html
I could not find a St Clair Avenue in Cleveland, Texas.
And guns killed how many?
"CLEVELAND, Ohio - A 21-year-old woman died late Saturday after she was hit by a car while riding an electric scooter in downtown Cleveland."
And probably won’t find an electric scooter on the streets either.
I was unaware of rental scooters in big cities until I drove down to San Diego a few months ago. The scooters were on almost every street corner, and no one nearby to collect money for their rental. Strange.
A lot of drivers out here in the San Fran area do not like these scooters. They are left out anywhere. Too many scooter users act like bikers, and don’t obey traffic rules.
Some people are treating the e-scooters as though they are Evil Incarnate. There are photos of the bikes being set on fire, left stuck in wet beaches, and even defecated on.
My Conclusion: Electric Bikes make great scapegoats and targets of generalized abuse.
A lot of people do like them as a mode of travel.
A small step up from the skateboards they used back in junior high. Some like the e-bikes because you can rent them very cheaply, and never have to purchase or maintain.
It’s insane to allow these people, many of whom are seriously ill and/or elderly, with poor hearing and eyesight, to drive these vehicles with out proper licensing, training and safety equipment. I’ve seen them go from sidewalk to street without warning. They have no warning lights or flags for signalling or increasing visibility, few have side mirrors, and they seem to be immune from traffic laws.
Scooters and bicycles are WAY TO SLOW for public streets and need to GET OFF or you die!!
These things are not “scooters” they are glorified Razors.
Yeah, that could’ve been me - being booked into jail. Wife and I were towing a camper, picture a 3/4 ton 4x4, day run lights, diesel, pulling a large camper... and still a guy in an electric mobility scooter just comes right off the sidewalk without looking, without a care in the world. Good thing I have the trailer brakes adjusted properly. Even with all 8 wheels gripping on the edge of anti-lock kick in, Jake brake rumbling like a semi... we barely stopped - as in within a couple of feet. Guy glanced over his shoulder at us without even seeming to comprehend - like someone had sneezed and he just glanced over to see who it was. Crazy.
Not unless you were intoxicated like the driver in this case.
“The scooters were on almost every street corner, and no one nearby to collect money for their rental. Strange.”
It all done on what the kids today call a ‘smart phone.’
No need for a person handle the transaction.
*what is the business plan of companies leaving bikes and electric scooters out for people to take?
#3. You ought to see the motorcycle jerks in the DC metropolitan area. It is like they are on a “suicide drive”. Unfortunately, it is often the good drivers who are killed by bad car drivers or bad road conditions.
I know that I miss a couple each week, esp. those who cut inbetween lanes to get ahead of the traffic.
I had to dodge a lot of them in San Antonio recently. That was easy enough to do (just step behind a lamppost when they come at you). A string of folks zooming down the sidewalk on Segways, however, were a real threat to safety.
They are not suitable for use on the streets, however.
The bikes and scooters lock themselves up when they don’t have a paying customer. The bikes are cheap and apparently not very profitable (a Chinese company in Dallas just scrapped 5000 bikes and left town); the scooters are apparently real moneymakers.
Sometimes these articles from Cleveland Texas are posted yet the person posting it does not distinguish that the Cleveland is not that Cleveland in Ohio.
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