Denver Health had nearly four patient encounters for scooter injuries every day in 2023.
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The collision injured Valdez's spinal cord, leaving him a quadriplegic. Two years later, after four surgeries and almost a year of hospitalizations, he remains confined to an electric wheelchair, with only limited mobility in his shoulders, right bicep and right wrist. He can no longer work and relies on home health care staff to do everything from eating to scratching his head.
The lawsuit also claims that Lime failed to properly maintain Valdez's e-scooter and encouraged improper scooter use by stationing the device outside of a bar and not adequately advertising its weight limit. Valdez well exceeded his scooter's 220-pound weight limit, though he says he was not aware when he rented the scooter, with the maximum weight only posted on the bottom of the device, according to the lawsuit.“While we cannot comment on active litigation, our heart goes out to Mr.
Driving an e-scooter while impaired is against the law in Denver, but Dormer argues that an average sober person would not have seen the pothole that caused the scooter crash, blaming the weak headlights the scooters are equipped with. And even if they saw the pothole, he maintains, a rider would expect the scooter to go over the hole without incident, but the insufficient wheel size and shock absorption cannot handle it.
"My life is completely different, but my life is not over," he says."That's the way I look at it. I'm going to be the best quadriplegic that I can be, because I'm still alive, thank goodness. My doctors have said that one inch up on my injury and I probably wouldn't be here. I lucked out in some regards."
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