{"content":[{"text":"Injury trends and rates \n We identified 176 emergency department and urgent care clinic visit records that appeared to be \n related to scooters during the pilot period. During this time there were approximately 700,000 scooter \n trips recorded on rental e­scooters, according to PBOT. We weren’t able to distinguish which injury \n records were from rental e­scooters and which were from other types, such as kids’ scooters or \n privately owned scooters.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.083076,"width":0.8009020000000001,"height":0.113047}},{"text":"Scooter injury visits increased around the time the pilot started, and declined to pre­pilot levels in the \n final weeks of the program. Before the pilot, emergency department and urgent care data showed \n about 1 scooter injury visit each week in the county. The rate increased to a high of about 20 visits per \n week in late August and early September, and then fell again to about 1 per week in November.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.218493,"width":0.8085780000000001,"height":0.07232699999999997}},{"text":"The chart above displays visit counts, but visits can also be calculated as a rate per mile traveled or per \n trip taken. During the pilot period, the overall rate of emergency department and urgent care visits for \n scooter injuries was 2.2 per 10,000 miles traveled on rental e­scooters, and 2.5 per 10,000 trips taken. \n These rates include injuries that may not be related to rental e­scooters, so the actual rate is likely \n lower.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.63516,"width":0.8208420000000001,"height":0.09126600000000007}},{"text":"Injury types \n We did not identify any fatal scooter injuries during the pilot period.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.763001,"width":0.528961,"height":0.037288999999999906}},{"text":"The data didn’t allow us to categorize the severity of every injury. To assess the level of severity, we \n identified cases where an ambulance was called or a concussion was indicated in the data. About 13","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.82266,"width":0.799963,"height":0.034448000000000034}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.900735,"top":0.924731,"width":0.010905000000000054,"height":0.016927000000000025}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.139706,"top":0.295455,"width":0.719363,"height":0.333333}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.139706,"top":0.295455,"width":0.719363,"height":0.333333}]}