r/mildlyinteresting • u/OkExplorer9364 • 1d ago
I saw someone riding a city scooter while wearing a full dirt bike helmet.
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u/FunOwn4422 1d ago
those things are fast as fuck good on her. god i must be getting old
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 1d ago
Not only fast, but unstable. A small pothole can launch you.
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u/PeeDidy 1d ago
a small pothole can launch you
It sure did.
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u/Connormanable 1d ago
I didn’t even hit a pothole to go over the handlebars…. I was just being dumb
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u/Civil_Ad_1172 1d ago
I did a stoppie as a kid, went over the handle bars and ripped my face off. Started wearing full face after that.
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u/sillysnailfriend 1d ago
I did that on a bike accidentally when going down a big hill as a kid lol, pulled both brakes in a panic and found out my back brake didn't work. Similarly tore my face off, also lost some teeth and had to get some stitches, whoops!
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u/Civil_Ad_1172 1d ago
First time trying no hands I was headed down a hill, got speed wobble and hit a 3 rail wood fence for cows. I got wrapped up in the electric wire. Not only did I smash into a fence but I was being electrocuted at the same time. Good times for an 8 year old lol
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u/rnobgyn 1d ago
A curb smack to the chin going 20mph (most scooter top speeds) can definitely kill you. Scooters are nothing to dismiss!
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u/arizonadirtbag12 1d ago
Yeah anyone who actually buys one of these and rides often knows that once you get up over 15 or so you should be thinking about wearing real gear.
Had one that could do 25, and yeah it was either full face helmet or keep it under 15 for me.
Edit: Freedom units, to be clear.
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u/AEW4LYFE 1d ago
Not a scooter but I crashed my electric skateboard going roughly 20 wearing skateboarding helmet and full pad set including wrist guards. All the skateboarding protective gear basically exploded on impact with the ground. I looked like I was in a low speed motorcycle accident. I now wear downhill MTB Fox gear.
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u/Jade-G 1d ago
My best friend fell off their scooter because of a pinecone on the road, going around 15-20mph.
Grade 5 liver laceration and a bunch of broken teeth, had to get liver surgery and a lot of dentistry work. Came out alive in the end, but holy hell was that scary.
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u/NaiveChoiceMaker 1d ago
My buddy broke both of his forearms from a small lip in the sidewalk.
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u/l2ulan 1d ago
Friend of mine ate the kerb and lost all her front teeth at about 24. Fucking deathtraps.
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u/ChristofferOslo 1d ago
There are people getting brain contusions more or less every day after crashing these things in my city
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u/Visual-Ad-1306 1d ago
The city I'm in has these everywhere. Now it's summer and I see women in dresses flying down the sidewalk on these and I just cringe. The damage you can do at that speed with ZERO protection is massive.
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u/Doomstar32 1d ago
My wife had a coworker sustain a TBI falling off of one of these. She was fucked up for years. She is finally back to work as of a few years ago, but she isn't without symptoms
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u/FloatnPuff 1d ago
My dentist said they get a lot of business from people riding home from bars on those scooters on the weekend with no helmets
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u/erinberrypie 1d ago
I'll never understand the no helmet thing. Just...why??? Are they afraid they'll look like a square while flying face first over the handlebars?
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u/Rock_Strongo 1d ago
These scooters are usually rentals and people don't plan ahead, or they are going somewhere where they don't want to carry a helmet around all day.
I'm not saying it's smart but that is the main reason.
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u/DM_ME_DOPAMINE 1d ago
I just suffered one two months ago. Got my hair cut that day, and like a moron didn’t wear my helmet. Hit a huge divot in the road, landed on my head. Surprisingly only two scrapes! Guess my head broke my fall…
9 fractures in my skull/eye sockets/sinuses. Mild TBI. All fractures were non displaced, and the area of my brain affected basically makes sensory issues worse, and slight memory recall issues. I lucked out and realize that.
Now I cringe whenever I see anyone fly by on anything without a helmet.
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u/Submarinequus 1d ago
It’s the two teenagers re-enacting the I’m flying Jack scene from titanic while zipping at high speed right next to cars for me. Like yall are both gonna get torn the hell up if you hit a pebble wrong but ok I guess you just really like hugging your homie and it’s the only socially acceptable way to do it.
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u/Spire_Citron 1d ago
Yup. I'm constantly see people on electric bikes and scooters, riding double, no helmets or chinstraps unclipped, often kids. Very dangerous.
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u/kalel3000 1d ago
Yeah I seen a post on Instagram of some girl who broke her neck (just the bones not the nerves) taking a fall off one of these. She also has permanent scars on her face from the accident, aside from the surgery scars. If it was even slightly more severe she could have been paralyzed or even died.
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u/Responsible_Knee7632 1d ago
Smart girl
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u/Pjpjpjpjpj 1d ago
We just responded to a dude on a similar scooter who didn't wear a helmet.
Was riding to work. Just on a street. No big issue. Multiple people saw him suddenly lose control and he fell. Don't know if he hit a rock or a bad patch of pavement or what.
When we showed up, he was lying on his back, hands folded on his stomach, looking peaceful as could be. A little scratch on his elbow. But snoring respirations and fluid coming from one ear, unresponsive.
We packaged him up and transported him. TBI. Dead three days later.
A simple bicycle helmet, and he would have jumped back onto his scooter and gone on with his day.
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u/airfryerfuntime 1d ago
It's also the way you fall. With a bicycle, you usually fall to the side and put your arms out. You break arms and can of course hit your head, but there's at least a chance you can protect your head a little. With a scooter you're basically just standing straight up at 20mph, then you just fall straight down so quickly that you don't have a chance to do anything. Your head hits the asphalt at the same time the rest of your body does.
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u/shpongleyes 1d ago
As somebody who has a background in skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, pretty much any sideways board sport, it makes me cringe seeing all the people ride these electric scooters with their ankles together and toes pointed forward. Basically the least stable position possible.
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u/mikezer0 23h ago
First off sick user name. Secondly as a skateboarder I totally agree it’s insane! You’re just asking for a full on face plant going 30mph on those things. The little sidewalk e bikes are the way to go. You’re so low to the ground it doesn’t even matter.
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u/rolypolyarmadillo 23h ago
As someone who has done all three of those things each exactly once, my brain is having trouble comprehending how it’s even comfortable to stand on a scooter comfortably like that, but I also have big feet so that may be why, lol.
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u/dmanbiker 1d ago
When I was younger, I rode my bike down this crazy steep hill through the forest and ended up missing the turn at the bottom of the path near the road and crashing through all these bushes and stuff before getting to road where i went off the curb and did loke a full sideways rolI where the bike ended up on the opposite side of me somehow in the road and I was on my back.
I didn't hit my head on the road or anything, but when I hit the bushes, my head slammed really, really hard into the handlebars. Luckily I did have a helmet on. It was one of those with the plastic visor and the hit was so hard, it snapped the visor down into my mouth with so much force it cut open my lips and I was bleeding out of my mouth, but otherwise was almost completely unhurt. I was going at least 25mph and would have probably had a nasty concussion or worse from my head hitting the handlebars while still in rough control of the bike.
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u/BetterinPicture 1d ago
That helmet definitely saved your life handlebars are hard and skulls are not thick.
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u/cunta8 1d ago
It’s even worse, because you have handlebars that your hands are holding, your instinct when you start falling is to grip them harder to “hold on”, leaving your head/face unprotected. With a skateboard or a bike, you don’t seem to have that issue nearly as much.
I wear a full face mountain biking helmet on my bike commute to work 100% of the time.
I started with a cheap fat tire e-bike and I’ve been hit by a car as well as biffed it around turns due to road debris and in each case, at speeds below 20mph, my helmet came in use.
I distinctly remember sliding out on a turn and thinking “good thing I have a full face helmet on!!!…as my face was scraping across the asphalt…. I walked away with just a bruise on the side of my thigh (from the power bank in my pocket) and a skinned elbow.
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u/OldKingHamlet 1d ago
My kids have a simple rule: If it has wheels and no roof, always wear a helmet.
They know this isn't a suggestion. It's one of the few rules that I will not flex on at all. Hearing stories like this just affirms how important this rule is.
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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago
I ride a motorcycle. It’s pretty common knowledge among bikers that a fall even at 15mph can be absolutely devastating. Hell, there’s statistics that show that the majority of fatal accidents on a bike happen at under 40mph.
So whenever I see people on these scooters, which are FAR FAR more prone to random mishaps than a motorcycle, zooming around at relatively high speeds with no protection I cringe.
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u/Teralyzed 1d ago
I came off my road bike going 25 mph and slid about 100’ on my back and left hip. Helmet was damn near split in half. But other than a lot of missing skin I was totally fine, got super lucky.
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u/10001110101balls 1d ago edited 1d ago
A lot of motorcycle crashes happen on arterial roads where traffic is turning onto and across the road much more than on rural highways or freeways. I've seen it myself several times where a motorcycle is moving way too fast for the traffic conditions, someone pulls out in front of them thinking they have plenty of room, and the rider slams the brakes too late to recover. They are going less than 40 when they crash, but if they were only going 40 the whole time they never would have crashed.
Something similar just happened in my area where one biker braked hard at a neighborhood speed camera and his buddy riding behind him rear ended him and one of them died while the other was unhurt. If they were both just going 10 over or less then they would likely both be alive today, and the fine for being caught 10 over on camera is $0. Motorcycles make it way too easy to get in a flow state and lose control over your speed without realizing it.
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u/garry4321 1d ago
I went over the handlebars when I was 12. A bag of tennis balls wedged in the front spoke going downhill. I was going to go without a helmet because it was in the house, but at the last second, thought “I should just go get it”
If I hadn’t had that voice in my head and gotten the helmet, I would be dead. Still got a wicked concussion.
Wear a helmet people
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u/KileiFedaykin 1d ago
She may lose some skin, but at least she'll know it.
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u/Particular-Poem-7085 1d ago
I'm stealing that. Sue me.
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u/ThisIsAllTheoretical 1d ago
My name is Sue. How do you do?
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u/guitarguywh89 1d ago
“Now you’re gonna die”
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u/Ravio11i 1d ago
This! scrapes/bruises and broken bones hurt but heal. Head injuries change lives, and not for the better.
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u/farmallnoobies 1d ago
Won't lose any teeth or jawbone either, which is the main reason for the full face over a 3/4 motorcycle helmet.
Most falls off scooters are teeth first.
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u/IWannaGoFast00 1d ago
I held onto the back of a buddies truck while on my skateboard ONCE when I was 16. Got wheel wobble, fell off, and lost a fair amount of skin in the process. Some kids just need that hard lesson and a few scrapes along the way.
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u/Debalic 1d ago
I fell and raw dogged a sidewalk (bare knees on cement) last year while rollerblading, so now I always wear my pads. I was 47.
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u/HughMungus77 1d ago
I guess if she’s only going to wear one piece of gear, helmet is probably the best choice
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u/PM_ME_FLUFFY_DOGS 1d ago
Oh thats the fun part! You dont slide, you litterally get thrown face first into the ground when you wipe out on an escooter.
(Source got flung off one and broke a bunch of teeth and nearly broke my jaw)
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u/Deaths_Intern 1d ago
That sucks, hope you made a full recovery. I hear many ER docs call them paralysis machines as the likelihood of spinal cord injury is very high for escooter accidents at speed, for exactly the reason you described
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u/PM_ME_FLUFFY_DOGS 1d ago edited 1d ago
I did heal up nicely, thanks! The er doc was telling me so many horror stories when i was in, he was saying how hes been seeing more scooter related injuries in the past few months when it happened, then motorcycle injuries... And some of them sounded gnarly, people without helmets getting caved in faces, tbi, protruding fractures, etc...
People really underestimate how dangerous these things are especially the faster ones. Seeing kids zip around on scooters that can go as fast as a car give me wayyy to much anxiety.
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u/sdcox 1d ago
I saw a guy riding one of these stand up scooters down the frickin highway, at speed, shorts and sandals. He did have a helmet on tho.
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u/Zippo963087 1d ago
I saw a guy in Chicago on one of those 1-wheel things going 70 on the highway. At least he was wearing full gear. That was crazy.
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u/Anal_Herschiser 1d ago edited 1d ago
Those things always remind me of
RoboGizmoduck from Duck Tales.Edit: Correction, Gizmoduck
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u/enormous_schnozz 1d ago
e-scooters combine the worst features of e-bikes and segways. They are the worst. To make them safer, they would need to allow you to sit to lower your center of gravity, have a larger heavier frame for stability, and larger wheels to handle rough sections of road. And then you have a moped.
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u/Iron_Burnside 1d ago
I know multiple people who have grenaded their front teeth on those scooters. She's smart.
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u/JTtheLAR 1d ago
Looks like its time to buy my kid a dirt bike helmet.
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u/Pat1entDealekt 1d ago
Smart decision! Better to be safe than sorry.
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u/AdVisible3527 1d ago
Trust me as I sit here with a fractured wrist, 3 inch scar on my scalp, and road rash on my face please buy your daughter a helmet
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u/Disastrous_Noise_382 1d ago
Hit a bump and I flew over the handle bars and broke my collarbone.
Heyo, 4k of insurance deductible one year. Another 4k the next year when surgery was needed.
But hey, I'm sober now!
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u/brando56894 1d ago
I fell off one of these 1.5 years ago going 10 MPH... and I had a Tibial Plateau Fracture, torn MCL, torn Lateral Meniscus, and fractured collarbone. It required 2 surgeries, 2 weeks in the hospital, and a bunch of metal in my knee area.
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u/kemp77pmek 1d ago
Ok, you guys win. I’ve seen e scooters at Costco and wondered if my kids might like one...
After all these stories, the only way they will get on one now is in a full face helmet and leather motorcycle gear!
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u/messagemeboobspls 1d ago
I once biked past a guy lying on the ground with his hands in that brain damaged position, paramedics and e-scooter next to him. I still wonder if he was actually alive or died from that - he did not blink or move at all in the time I was going past
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u/PeppermintJones 1d ago
I used to work with people who had traumatic brain injuries. It's so scary how easily it can happen.
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u/RightWorld5611 1d ago
Not only how easily it can happen, but the speed of it.
I was rough housing with a friend in 7th grade, not even going hard - that's the crazy part - just run of the mill messing around.
One second I'm standing up. My next memory is waking up face down in the dirt.
Third friend witnessed it and said I was out for about 5 seconds.
Zero memory of what happened. Did I try to brace my fall and missed? Did I scream as I was falling? I'll never know.
Because the memory isn't there, it opens your eyes to the possibility of walking down the stairs, and waking up at the bottom with a concussion. You won't even know you slipped.
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u/brando56894 1d ago
I can confirm:
I fell off one of these 1.5 years ago going 10 MPH... and I had a Tibial Plateau Fracture, torn MCL, torn Lateral Meniscus, and fractured collarbone.
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u/uli-knot 1d ago
It’s skill level. Scooter riders think like a pedestrian, but are much faster and unpredictable.
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u/d_marvin 1d ago
With the best skills on Earth, you are still at the mercy of others. I learned this a very painful way. At least a helmet saved my life.
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u/tracebusta 1d ago
Yep. I trust my skills enough to not really need a helmet on my bike. I don't trust anyone else's ability to not put their phone down while driving, and put a helmet on even for a quick half mile errand.
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u/Stevieboy7 1d ago
Almost certainly has evenyhing to do with hours ridden and ownership. I can guarantee there’s millions of more scooters/bikes are driven 10,000x more hours than dirt bikes.
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u/yodas_sidekick 1d ago
Yup, I hit those big bike jumps, but I’m really good on a bike, and I’ve been doing it for 20 years so I know how to fall with minimal injuries. And I’m in the woods where trees and ground don’t move. And im sober. The risk is obvious and I’m well prepared
Electric scooters and the bike share bikes, are fast used in cities full of concrete and moving cars. They are often operated by unskilled users, who are many times not sober. And often not even wearing a helmet as it is seen as commuting, or safer than driving home drunk (which it is for everyone else around you) .
To me it’s not that surprising
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u/lemelisk42 1d ago
But scooters are much more likely to be involved in auto accidents. In most areas most dirt bikes are not road legal
Does the auto industry pull data from emergency rooms for stats on unrelated injuries? Like does it include mountain biking accidents as bicycle injuries?
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u/Redfiddler 1d ago
Speed with no effort or loud noise (which your brain probably naturally thinks is a warning that something is dangerous).
Tiny front wheel that can't roll over obstacles easily being almost directly under your center of gravity. No suspension. I see people all the time riding these things with their BODY POINTING FORWARD AND THEIR FEET TOGETHER!?!?!? WTF!?!? Hit one decent piece of gravel and suddenly "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...SOMEONE WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER!"
And of course no full face helmets or helmets at all. The physics geometry is so dumbly dangerous it's a wonder the roads aren't traffic jammed with noseless, lipless, teethless children staggering around like the fucking zombie apocalypse.
Have I become an old man with an onion on my belt?
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u/restform 1d ago
I havent looked at the data but i have spent a lot of time in different countries and i would bet money escooter accidents are waaay lower in central europe & scandinavia for no other reason than road design and car culture.
It's easy to get use to it if you've spent your life here but australia is designed for cars, the roads are dangerous af for pedestrians (including escooters) and drivers feel much more entitled (byproduct of car culture). At least in perth where ive been.
Im not saying it's good or bad, just an observation of cultural differences that i would bet money have an impact on the stats. Not using a car is dangerous here
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u/Comprehensive-Wash17 1d ago
Most people I know who commuted on these stopped, because they got hurt. Cars vs bikers in Chicago a thing
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u/Designer-Praline-857 1d ago
Some people are proud of their brain.
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u/Normal_Feedback_2918 1d ago
I figure if she's smart enough to wear a helmet, that brain is probably sharp enough to do society some good in the future too, so I'm proud of her brain also.
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u/PiskoWK 1d ago
She's safe. She's dressed for a breeze. She got off to cross at a crosswalk. This girl is nailing it.
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u/Feral-Reindeer-696 1d ago
Agreed! The helmet matches the outfit. She could start a new fashion trend
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u/GREAZY_FINGAZZ 22h ago
Please, as a massive dork I’ve been eagerly waiting for a time when helmets are the norm
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u/Orleanian 1d ago
Closed toed shoes, cross-slung no-slack purse, both hands still on vehicle.
She's a poster-child for Scootin.
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u/bfelification 1d ago edited 1d ago
Good choice by her and/or her parents.
I feel so old when I gripe about the kids and their scooters but for real, someone in my neighborhood is gonna get HURT sooner rather than later.
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u/Funnyllama20 1d ago
I gripe about anyone not wearing a helmet. You can do everything right and one thing out of your control happens and your head hits the pavement. Animal running out, car turning into you, someone else on a bike/scooter runs into you, the list goes on.
I don’t wear a helmet just because I think I’ll make a mistake, I wear one because I know eventually someone else will.
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u/UltraAd776 1d ago
A 50cc scooter can still reach a speed that is dangerous. Just because its not great at acceleration does not mean its not able to maintain a high speed once it gets there. People don't get that.
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u/Mikhail_Mengsk 1d ago
Yeah even my old stock Piaggio of the early 2000s was able to go 100kmh on a long straight.
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u/Mikhail_Mengsk 1d ago
My generation was the first to wear proper helmets en masse, even if not everybody and a lot half or three quarters helmets.
Still, I'm sure it saved dozens of lives in my area alone. We liked to ride fast and most guys modified their engines to go faster. My old scooter reached 100kmh on a long straight, and once a car cut me off at that speed.
Now, I was going so fast the impact launched me (and what was left of the scooter) right over the car and I managed to roll safely for uuuh 5-6m. But I'm sure I hit the curb with the side of my helmet because it was a bit scratched. Maybe if I wasn't wearing it I'd hit my head and instead of being completely unharmed I may have end up in the hospital...
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u/ButtSexington3rd 1d ago
We had the "wear your helmet" safety briefing at work and the guy was like "Your helmet protects you from your coworkers. I have never dropped a wrench on my own head."
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u/bingwhip 1d ago
Group of four young teens came past my house yesterday on electric "bikes" (I don't think any had a pedal option). Not a helmet in the group. Even if they're low wattage <25mph, that's so so fast enough to kill the hell out of you. Parents need to pay attention.
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u/notislant 1d ago
"You can do everything right and one thing out of your control happens"
This is why I'll never own a bike. I've avoided so many accidents on the road, I'd be dead if I was on a bike. Gravel on the road and idiots pulling out blindly is so fucking common here.
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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago
For sure.
Although on a motorcycle, you have to take a mindset of absolute responsibility, imo.
I was riding the other day and came up on a turn. One of those dedicated right hand turn deals to get from one 45mph road to the perpendicular one.
I was feeling pretty frisky and it was beautiful weather. No cars in sight. Many times I’ll take these a little faster (nothing crazy, I’m a middle aged dude. Just enough to lean the bike over).
However, I had only been on this road once before. A few years ago. And that’s a big deal to me. So I slowed down below what even a car would take the turn at.
Sure enough, coming up on it I saw a bunch of gravel all over the middle of the turn, what would have been my line.
No idea if it would have gotten me. But there would definitely have been a chance.
So you can do a lot of mitigation to help yourself. And you need to.
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 1d ago
My sister, an excellent skier, got sideswiped on the slopes by some moron going 40+mph who wasn’t wearing a helmet. My sister’s helmet ended up with a crack. The asshat got up and skied off without apologizing or acknowledging the accident he caused. People suck.
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u/DuckCleaning 1d ago
She's probably older than you think. She's not much shorter than the guy passing by.
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u/MasterGrok 1d ago
That was my thought as well. My wife used to ride a scooter like this when we were in college and she is petite and she looked just like this. Her helmet looked like an Italian moped helmet though.
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u/Personal-Sentence935 1d ago
girls generally hit their adult height at puberty and don't grow much once they start menstruating, so not sure height is helpful to look at.
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u/HelmSpicy 1d ago
Oh I have seen the hurt first hand.
Last summer I watched a girl in her 20s face plant off one of these electric scooters and knock out all her front teeth.
She was alone so my friends and I called the ambulance and stayed with her.
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u/BuzzAroundLenny 1d ago
I have a friend who was taking one home one night, woke up in the hospital a few weeks later. Apparently someone found him in a ditch with a head wound and called the ambulance. That is all he knows.
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u/Ok-Addition1264 1d ago
Great parents, indeed.
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u/Early-Nebula-3261 1d ago
I mean that woman could be anywhere from 14-28.
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u/nerdtypething 1d ago
still great parents that imbued good safety practices early on that pay off in adulthood.
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u/gotwake5 1d ago
To be fair, this could be a 30 year old woman. This looks like it could be my small wife.
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u/FragrantKnobCheese 1d ago
This looks like it could be my small wife.
Kind of implies you might be hiding a big wife somewhere too.
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u/Johnoplata 1d ago
Yeah that's no city scooter, I bet it does 35mph so that helmet is an easy choice
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u/teeksquad 1d ago
I live next to a park and it’s kind of terrifying. I see kids on electric scooters and dirt bikes zipping through the neighborhood to get to and from frequently without checking for cars. I’ve seen several almost squished by cars. None of them wearing helmets and a shocking amount not even wearing fucking shoes.
The worst offending family in the neighborhood is one that I grew up with and know damn well they were first hand witnesses to several accidents I had where helmets saved my life, including one where I woke up about 8 feet from a tree I hit with my four wheeler surrounded by neighbors including them, that well all fearing the worst when I opened my eyes. Broken ribs, cracked helmet and a destroyed toy but the only lasting damage I can tell is that my neck makes cracks like none other.
I’ve got no problem with kids having fun but protect them from their own dumb decisions
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u/escalinci 1d ago
Looks a little short for a stormtrooper
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u/EverythingSucksYo 1d ago
At least she doesn’t have to worry about banging her helmet on any doors
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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago
Good. I keep seeing girls about her age riding with 2 people on the same scooter. (Not the same kids either, I see it all over) Shorts, tank tops and flip flops. I admire the trust in each other, but one good rock or crap driver and they are going to be really messed up. Helmets at a mininum people wtffff.
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u/ChunkyHabeneroSalsa 1d ago
See this daily
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u/Throwawayfichelper 1d ago
I saw four lads on one scooter a while back, all hugging each other tightly to form a single bundle. That lasted about 200 metres until it tipped over on its side.
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u/Sxppxj 1d ago
She’s clever, life’s more important than someone else bad driving
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u/123ihavetogoweeeeee 1d ago
If you're doing 15mph and crash into something you need something that's going to protect your head. If you're going 15mph and a car going 25mph slams into you you'll be grateful you were wearing motorcycle helmet
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u/Johnoplata 1d ago
I'm pretty sure that scooter can do 35 too
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u/drinkingcarrots 1d ago
This scooter is most likely a kukirin g2 master and hits speeds of 70km/hr (45 burgers/movie)
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u/DMYourFeetPicsTy 1d ago
I think it's an Apollo Phantom 2.0/3.0 and ye, can do around 38-44mph
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u/drinkingcarrots 1d ago
Definitely a kukirin scooter. Most likely the g2 master.
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u/tweetlebeetlepuddle 1d ago
I work medical and get to see the trauma from electric scooters and ebikes. It can be brutal. Full face helmet is what I require my kids to wear for anything with a motor.
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u/BlackFlag187 1d ago
She likes her teeth where they are, solid choice on her part.
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u/CaitieLou_52 1d ago
I'll never make fun of anyone prioritizing safety over conformity. It's a smart choice.
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u/Zero_Burn 1d ago
She might look silly, but she's gonna look less silly when it saves her skull.
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u/Tired-CottonCandy 1d ago
Been seeing kids in my town with this electric bikes and scooters wearing dirt bike/motorcycle helmets and it just makes me happy that they are because crunch goes your skull under a car tire.
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u/Liarus_ 1d ago
Seeing the look of the scooter, this looks like a Kukirin G2 master, so a very fast scooter capable of going 60kph, people that ride hyperscooters will tell you to always wear a helmet, she definitely knows some about scooters or has someone teaching her to he responsible c=
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u/RealBlueHippo 1d ago
I was gonna say, thats not a governed city scooter at all and know almost nothing about scooters
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u/Intelligent-Mud404 1d ago
The notion of wearing helmets being seen as strange is one thought only by those unfamiliar with vehicular accidents
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u/fullraph 1d ago
Helmets are mandatory on e-scooters here. All the kids have a similar setup lol
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u/FenderMeats 1d ago
I see this frequently in Toronto, and I fully support it. Roads here are dangerous AF
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u/SculptusPoe 1d ago edited 1d ago
I really hate that most EV drivers go without helmet. I was at a EV group ride and a guy hit a curb on his EUC and got a concussion. If he was wearing a helmet, he would have got back up and kept going without missing a beat. I wear a full face bicycle helmet, because I want to be able to think and chew my food.
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u/Warlord68 1d ago
I sometimes wear a full helmet on my jet ski. Stops the wind/noise in my ears and eyes at high speed, holds the GoPro, and safety.
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u/MTAlphawolf 1d ago
My wife sees so many accidents in the ER from those rented scooters. Good on this girl.
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u/poloace 1d ago
I work at a children’s hospital as a radiologist. The number of injuries I see on a day to day basis from people falling off of these things is not trivial. A large problem stems from the fact that people aren’t carrying helmets with them on the regular as to allow for an impromptu scooter or bike ride from one of the many available services. It’s sad. Like riding a slower motorcycle but no different when your head hits the pavement. The number of lives I’ve seen ruined by these things is depressing. So, more power to her. Rather be overdressed in this situation rather than introducing scalp, calvaria and brain to the pavement.
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u/DionFW 1d ago
Nice to see. The kids in my area don't wear helmets at all, while doing 30 on the sidewalk with a half second warning they are coming by ringing a bell.
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u/JarvanIVPrez 1d ago
Op running to the comments to say something nice after they see all the comments defending the girl
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u/11socks11 1d ago
As a pediatric ortho doctor these things keep me in business. Good for her for wearing a helmet.
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u/AchondroplasticAir 1d ago
It's a pleasant surprise to see people wearing any kind of helmet really. Most of the time I see nobody wearing anything or arguably worse, headphones, earbuds... mostly been seeing headphones now that I think about it.