FAQs Category: Atlanta Scooter Accident

At the moment, Spin, Bird, Lime, and Lyft are the major scooter services in Atlanta. However, that could change, as the Atlanta city government seeks to establish a regulatory scheme for the dockless scooters, and it is not clear who will emerge from the process with the necessary permissions to operate in the city. As for the […]

Not yet, but they will be. Right now, the city has laws on the books prohibiting riders from riding on sidewalks, leaving scooters parked in the middle of sidewalks, and prohibiting riders from leaving their scooters lying on the ground. In addition, there is a 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. ban on riding scooters in […]

For starters, these aren’t the scooters you rode as a kid; powered only by whichever leg you decided to push with until you were fortunate enough to come to a nice, exciting downhill street. These scooters have small but fairly powerful electric motors on the rear wheel, capable of driving a scooter at 30 miles […]

No. All of the major dockless scooter operators stress safety on their websites, but none of them provide helmets with their scooters. Maybe the companies could not devise a reliable theft-prevention method that would allow each scooter renter to use the helmet without the risk of the rider choosing not to return it once he […]

A lack of federal statistics hampers any effort to gather accurate data on scooter accidents and injuries nationwide. The industry is new enough that there has not been sufficient time for the federal government to compile statistical reports, which typically have a lag of two years before full data is available. However, preliminary studies with […]

A study published in the JAMA Surgery journal found that in one year, emergency room-treated injuries related to scooter accidents jumped from about 8,000 to about 16,000. A third of those scooter injuries in 2018 were head injuries, as compared to only about one-sixth of injuries suffered in bicycle accidents the same year. The authors of the study speculated […]

That depends on which company’s app you install on your phone. You can have apps for more than one company, of course, so that you can take the first scooter you come across. If you can’t find one, the app will tell you where the nearest scooter to you is located. That said, in many […]

That depends on the facts of your case, and winning is far from guaranteed. Even when it comes to equipment failures, the scooter companies—led by Lime and Bird, the innovators in the field—use seemingly ironclad liability waivers to avoid legal liability for accidents on their scooters. The waiver, part of a lengthy legal contract that […]

If you are injured in a scooter accident that was caused by a driver, there is a good chance you will recover compensation for your accident-related injuries. Like any other accident, if you can show your crash resulted from driver negligence, you will likely obtain compensation from the driver’s insurance company. Some examples of driver […]