Colorado’s second-highest court ruled electric scooter companies cannot be held liable for injuries caused by riders.
DENVER — A Colorado cyclist’s long legal battle after a life-altering crash essentially has come to an end with a court ruling in favor of the electric scooter company Lime. On Thursday, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that scooter companies cannot be held liable for injuries caused by their riders.
“They just hit me head-on, and my bike went up and over the curb, and I fell back into the bike lane,” Josie Harrington said.
The crash occurred in 2020 during Harrington’s daily commute on 14th Street near California Street in downtown Denver. She was riding in the bike lane when a scooter rider, who she said appeared intoxicated and was traveling in the wrong direction, collided with her.
Harrington suffered serious injuries, including a broken clavicle, a fractured radial bone, severe whiplash, …