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By Mark Harmsworth
Washington Policy Center 

Despite the obvious safety risks, the City of Spokane is pushing forward with more Lime scooters

 


In a strange twist of fate, within 30 days of the City of Spokane announcing Lime scooters are back in Spokane with a new scooter model that promises to be safer, better handling and cheaper to run, a scooter rider was hit and injured on-route to a Shania Twain concert.

This, as Krem 2 reports, this was not the first time a scooter related accident has happened. In 2019 a man was killed on a Lime scooter; a women broke her jaw when the scooter un-expectantly engaged its brakes and in 2020 a man received life threating injuries when he was hit by a car.

Obviously, safety is and should be, th...



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