Pediatricians raise alarm over surge in minors’ e-scooter accidents

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Local pediatricians person expressed interest implicit a crisp emergence successful electrical scooter accidents involving minors, galore resulting successful injuries and fatalities.

Earlier Tuesday, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis announced plans to modulate e-scooter use successful effect to the summation successful incidents.

In a written entreaty to the enactment of Greece’s Infrastructure and Transport Ministry, POMEP, the Greek federation of self-employed pediatricians, pointed to a caller fatal mishap successful Ilia, successful the western Peloponnese, where a 13-year-old lad riding an electrical scooter collided head-on with a car.

“The incidental causes symptom and is simply a telephone for contiguous action. It is not conscionable a portion of news,” the radical said.

Citing roadworthy information for 2025, the pediatricians reported 109 e-scooter-related accidents, including two fatalities, arsenic well as, successful the archetypal two months of 2026 alone, 17 such accidents. Hundreds of minors person required hospitalization arsenic a effect of such accidents, they noted.  

The pediatricians warned that the true standard of the occupation is apt higher, arsenic not each incidents are reported to authorities.

“The state of each kid ends where the information to their beingness begins,” POMEP stressed. 

A draught instrumentality is expected to prohibition minors from utilizing electrical scooters connected the roadworthy network, restricting their use to pedestrian zones and nationalist squares.