Teens on scooters pose a deadly threat to others and themselves. “They take part in 70 % of accidents”

Further fatal accidents involving electric scooters have occurred in Poland in recent weeks. Life after the falls or collisions of this device with other vehicles was lost by teenagers, but also adults. Experts and doctors beat the alarm.

On Monday evening in Błonie Wieś there was a fatal accident involving two men going on an electric scooter. They collided with a truck. They did not survive the accident.

Young Capt. Krzysztof Stefaniak from the fire brigade in the West Warsaw poviat announced that the accident occurred on national road number 92.

-The truck collided with a scooter, which was driven by two men aged 20-30. Despite resuscitation, they both did not survive the accident – added the fireman.

Since the beginning of this year, seven people were killed in accidents involving electric scooters, and in 847 accidents were injured in addition to 778 people. Data for the period from January 1 to September 1, 2025 was transferred to PAP Podinsp. Robert Opas from the KGP Road Office.

Road traffic expert Filip Grega, commenting on PAP for PAP, said that no regulations would work if they are not observed by road users.

– It is an unimaginable tragedy for us, but it is unimaginable because it is difficult to understand how you can come up with such an idea. After all, these men did not have the right to go together with one scooter, and yet they did it, they took such a great risk – said the expert.

In April in Przytrosz near Wąbrzeźno (Kuyavian-Pomeranian), after an accident at an electric scooter, a 17-year-old died, and a 15-year-old boy went to the hospital with severe injuries. The preliminary findings of the police showed that teenagers riding a scooter lost control over her and fell out of the way. Six days after the incident, a teenager died in the hospital.

At the beginning of August in Chrzanów, the first in the province Lublin, a 21-year-old moving with an electric scooter, died in an accident. He rode without a helmet and lost his reign. He was overwhelmed by injuries, he was transported by helicopter of the Air Ambulance to the hospital, where he died the next day.

At the beginning of August, a 15-year-old died in the hospital, who fell to the ground from an electric scooter in Świecie (Kuyavian-Pomeranian). He traveled with his friend's service road No. 10. They had no helmets. Both after an accident with injuries were transported to the hospital. A few days later, the 15-year-old died.

A few days ago in Giżycko in the province Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship took place with the participation of two teenagers driving an electric scooter. One of them was in a hospital in a state of life in a state of life for many weeks.

Experts agree that electric scooters are not toys and changes in recipes, awareness and education are necessary – especially young people.

Dr. Adam Michcik from the Medical University of Gdańsk emphasized in an interview with PAP that, apart from limb injuries, fractures within the facial part of the skull are the most common damage to patients after scooter accidents.

– Small wheels that are not good stability while driving and usually weak brakes are a dangerous mixture conducive to numerous and dangerous accidents. Due to the spread of this means of transport, especially among children, we notice an increased number of patients with injuries to the facial part of the skull – said Michcik.

– Most often there are fractures of the jaw, condyloma appendix, jaw, eye sockets and extensive, multi -flexible fractures of many bones of the facial part of the skull – he calculated.

He admitted that the injuries of a person driving without a helmet after hitting the ground depend on the force of the injury.

“At best, they will be soft tissue wounds, often leaving permanent scars,” he said.

Mateusz Struś, an assistant from the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Children's Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Warsaw, told PAP that the kids are rushing on 80 km/h scooters.

-Almost half of the children who go to our ward with head injury, but also with others, e.g. limb fractures-these are victims of accidents at a scooter, which gives 7-8 people a week-he pointed out.

He added that although there are small children, e.g. 7-year-olds, most victims are teenagers aged 12-17.

The main cause of accidents, as he emphasized, is excessive speed.

– Hulajnogi, at least theoretically, should have factory speed locks, but they do not have them and the kids drive at a speed of 60, 70, even 80 km per hour – said the doctor.

He reminded the case of a 13-year-old boy who was sent to his unit after an accident at a scooter.

“Earlier, the police got a signal from a TIR driver that he was traveling on a national road and a kid overtook him on a scooter,” he said.

According to Mateusz Strusia, in addition to high speed, the significant injury of such accidents and their frequent mortality translates that scooters riders do not have helmets.

– At a speed of up to 50 km per hour, if a small scooter circle comes across a pebble, the vehicle falls into such turbulence as a motorcycle at a speed of 160 km per hour. And his user is not able to control the vehicle – emphasized the interlocutor PAP.

According to the expert for Road traffic Filip Grega, the greatest deficiencies are in education and checking whether young people can really use these devices.

-The introduction of helmets for e-Hulajnoses younger than 16 years recognized as a step in the right direction, but as the beginning of the way to order the regulations and building threats awareness.

– This year's balance of accidents and death involving scooters on Polish roads is tragic – he concluded.

On Tuesday, the government adopted a draft amendment to the road traffic law. As announced by the boss Dariusz Klimczak, the provision on the introduction of the statutory obligation to wear a helmet, electrical scooter and personal transport devices (UTO) by children up to 16 years old, was added to the project.

Tomasz Więcławski