The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has already received four e-scooter injury claims less than a week after the launch of Lime scooters in Dunedin.
“We had four claims from Dunedin up to and including Sunday,” an ACC spokesperson told Newshub.
The publication reported the injuries weren’t specifically related to Lime scooters and could be other e-scooters. The spokesperson explained that the only way to know if it was connected to the service was if the claimant wrote “Lime scooter” on their claimant form when recording an injury as part of ACC’s no-fault scheme.
Lime e-scooters launched in Dunedin on January 10. In October 2018, Lime secured approval from authorities to launch its service in the country. Two weeks after launch, there had been a reported boom in the number of injuries connected to the service. Of the 38 ACC claims that were e-scooter related since Lime was introduced, 27 were reportedly in Auckland and 11 in Christchurch.
