Yea how does that make any sense? How are 20x more crashes, the safer option? Severity of crash? How do they compare that?
From the article:
“The high number of crashes involving e-scooters reflects that they were used much more frequently than e-bicycles”
They really shouldn’t frame it as “number of crashes” and put it into crashes per 1000 ridden km, or something like that. At least for the layperson.
Edit. I assume it’s because there are that many more scooters than bisycles on the road, but how can you even begin to argue 35 bicycle crashes across multiple cities across multiple years had any statistical significance?
Exactly that. 35 is nothing, especially when they don’t result in fatalities.
From the article:
“The high number of crashes involving e-scooters reflects that they were used much more frequently than e-bicycles”
They really shouldn’t frame it as “number of crashes” and put it into crashes per 1000 ridden km, or something like that. At least for the layperson.
Exactly that. 35 is nothing, especially when they don’t result in fatalities.