Last week, Rihanna had an electric scooter accident in which she bruised her forehead and face.
The 32-year-old singer was photographed with bruises on her forehead and face when she spotted in a car near a restaurant in Los Angeles on Friday, according to the PEOPLE.
Rihanna’s rep confirmed the accident and told the magazine, “Rihanna is completely fine now but flipped over on an electric scooter last week and bruised her forehead and face.”
However, it is unclear what type of e-scooter she was riding. It is also unclear whether Rihanna was wearing a helmet when she flipped over.
This is not the first time an A-lister celebrity had an electric scooter accident. A few weeks ago, AGT judge Simon Cowell broke his back in three places after falling off his electric bike.
Cowell nearly missed damaging his spinal cord. He had to undergo several hours of surgery to fix his back. He will be requiring intense physiotherapy to recover from the surgery.
In July, Nina Kapur, CBS news reporter, was killed while pillion riding without a helmet on a Revel electric scooter in NYC. She was thrown from the pillion rider seat of the scooter when the driver lost control of the bike while swerving to avoid a car.
Well, it is not only celebrities but also many other people who have been involved in electric scooter and e-bike accidents; it’s just that celebrity accidents make headlines.
Just a couple of weeks after Kapur’s death, another Revel electric scooter accident turned fatal.
Jeremy Malave suffered severe head trauma after losing control of his e-scooter and hit a light post in NYC. Another man, named Francis Nunez, crashed into a light pole in upper Manhattan while riding a Revel scooter without a helmet, later succumbing to his injuries.
These fatalities prompted Revel to temporarily halt all of its service in NYC until the end of August.
Revel wrote on Twitter that it was “reviewing and strengthening our rider accountability and safety measures.”
The company resumed its service at the end of August with new safety measures in place, including a requisite 20-minute safety training class (via smartphone) before using an e-scooter. Revel asked all riders to use its app to take a photo of themselves wearing a helmet before the ride.
In recent years, e-scooter and e-bike injuries have spiked. In the United States, hospitals admitted nearly 3,300 people suffering electronic scooter-related injuries from 2014 to 2018, a 365% increase from prior years, according to Forbes.
Nearly half of the confirmed injuries were head injuries, making a strong case for wearing a helmet. CDC’s Laurel Harduar Morano, said in a media release, “We know from bicycle-related injuries and deaths that helmet use reduces the risk of head and brain injuries in the event of a bicycle crash Helmet use might also reduce the risk of head and brain injuries in the event of a dockless electric scooter crash.”
