Hamad Injury Prevention Program shares best practices for safe e-scooter use in Qatar

Doha: The Hamad Injury Prevention Program HIPP, Hamad Trauma Center (HTC) of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is advising families and residents to practice proven safe e-scooter use specially in Ramadan in Qatar.

Globally, e-scooters are a new and trendy means of personal transportation potentially improving micromobility for many road users. Recently, there are even e-scooter rideshare options available here in Doha. User convenience, environmental concerns and even transportation costs have all been cited as rationale for their increasing use. While it seems inevitable that the number of scooter users and scooters will increase, what the general public does not know is the great risks they face when using them and what are the proven means of increasing one's safety when using one. E-scooters have been introduced and widely used in many cities and towns across the globe, unfortunately there is a pattern that has been repeated in almost all these locations. E-scooters have been banned or heavily regulated only after fatalities or severe disabling injuries from multiple e-scooter crashes.