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Scooters make bikers safer
2025-03-22 20:24:30.295168+01 by
Dan Lyke
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University of Bristol: Electric scooter schemes reduce bicycle collisions by 20%, study suggests
These findings support the ‘safety in numbers’ hypothesis. This argues that the more people use ‘micromobility’ forms of transport such as bicycles and e-scooters the safer they become, possibly because car drivers take more care.
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