Mobility scooter-related injuries and deaths

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Release Date: 08 May 2019

Author: AIHW

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Mobility scooter-related injuries and deaths. INJCAT 201. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Mobility scooter-related injuries and deaths. AIHW, 2019.

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More than 4,500 people were admitted to hospital for a possible mobility scooter-related injury between 2011–12 and 2015–16, including 121 cases involving a pedestrian who was injured in a collision with a mobility scooter. Compared with a decade earlier, fall injuries most likely from a mobility scooter have increased for older Australians aged 60 and over—from about 200 to about 500 each year. Over the 10 years from 2006–07 to 2015–16, a total of 69 people aged 60 and over died from a mobility scooter-related incident.

Cat. no: INJCAT 201
Pages: 16

Findings from this report:

Falls (96%) and transport accidents (4%) were the main cause of injury
Falls and transport accidents were the two main mechanisms of mobility scooter-related death; 62% and 33% respectively
Fractures accounted for 50% of mobility scooter injuries
2,300 people were hospitalised as a result of mobility scooter-related injury in 2011–16; males (52%) and females (42%)

What are mobility scooters?
Why report on mobility scooters?
How many pedestrians were admitted to hospital?
- Female pedestrians were twice as likely to be injured as male pedestrians
- Most pedestrians injured were aged 65 and over
What type of injuries did pedestrians sustain?
Where did the collision occur?
How many people were injured in a possible mobility scooter-related fall?
What does the data tell us if we restrict falls most likely from a mobility scooter to cases aged
What type of injuries did older Australians sustain?
Where did possible mobility scooter-related falls among older Australians occur?
How many mobility scooter incidents resulted in deaths?
- Most deaths were among those aged 80-89
- Nearly 2 in 3 people were killed in a crash with another vehicle
What were mobility scooter users doing at the time of their fatal incident?
How many mobility scooter-related deaths involved alcohol?
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