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❓ Mr Hort's question seeks detailed data on e-scooter related hospital admissions and fatalities in WA from 2021-2025, but WA Health states they cannot provide the data due to limitations in national coding classifications.

AnsweredQoN 33Legislative Assembly

Asked

29 April 2025

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Mr Adam Hort

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I refer to e-scooter-related hospital admissions in Western Australia and ask: (a) For each of the following years - 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date: (i) How many individuals were admitted to hospitals in Western Australia due to e-scooter-related injuries, categorised by health campus; (ii) Of these admissions, how many involved individuals under the age of 18, categorised by health campus and age; (iii) What were the most common types of injuries sustained (e.g., head injuries, fractures, internal injuries) with the number provided; (iv) How many of these cases involved patients under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the incident with the number provided; and (v) What was the average length of hospital stay for these admissions; and (b) For each of the years listed in (a), how many fatalities have been recorded as a result of e-scooter-related incidents categorised by health campus or region?

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Answered

29 May 2025

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Minister for Health

Response time

8 days

(a-b) WA Health his unable to provide a response to the attached PQ as the national coding classifications do not contain the specificity to identify injury by an E-scooter.

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