The number of scooter-related injuries and hospital admissions in the U.S. grew by 222 percent between 2014 and 2018.
Some have raised concerns given their small size, lower center of gravity than bikes, and relatively high speeds, and exposure to conflicts with vehicles or pedestrians.
The slow-speed derailment of the three middle cars happened as train 3926 from Trenton rolled onto Track Nine in the station at about 9 a.m. The impact was hard enough to break a wheel off of one of the cars.
The company involved in the crash had their vehicles inspected 22 times in the last two years, and a vehicle was taken out of service during one of the inspections, according to federal records.
The bus driver, a woman in her 30s, suffered an injury to her arm due to broken glass after a driver partition, which may have saved her life, shattered.
Jurors spent about seven hours in deliberations before concluding non-emergency transportation company Logisticare LLC was partially at fault for the 2012 Adele, Ga. accident.
All the victims were adults, according to the report, with the surviving passengers and the big rig driver only suffering minor injuries.
In addition, a man who had his finger partially ripped off during the accident is planning to sue the transit agency.
Official details were not available on the precise circumstances of the incident, which occurred when a passenger train struck a work train about 20 miles east of Manhattan. It was not immediately clear if the work train was stationary at the time.
The white bus with no identification markings was carrying about 30 people from Southern California to the Sacramento area when it struck a large pole, which appeared to have torn through the center of the bus, splitting the front half nearly down the middle.
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