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The latest research examined injuries recorded at specialist trauma centres including Alder Hey in Liverpool. Researchers are calling for clearer safety messaging and a review of legislation.

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00:00Well, it depends who's on them. You know, it depends who's on them. You know, they're good for kids if
00:07they know how to do it. But there's too many accidents on them, isn't there? And there's not only 500
00:14accidents. There's a lot more than that.
00:17Just walking around town and walking around Liverpool, you don't even hear them and it's the silence. So it's not
00:24like you're hearing a car coming or something. You just, all you hear is zoom and they fly by and
00:29you like jump a bit. Just coming from Lime Street Station right then, one flew by like in between four
00:35girls.
00:35I'm explaining to them the dangers to their lives and, you know, there needs to be some way of being
00:45able to achieve restrictions on hiring there.
00:48You walk around, not just town, you walk around anywhere in Liverpool and they're just like throwing on the floor
00:54and blocking pathways and all that stuff. And, you know, the curbs are already small anyway, aren't they? So, you
01:02know, cars parked on them and everything. So it's hard to get by anyway, but.
01:06They're too quick. That's the problem. Yeah. If they were slower, the children.
01:14If you look at it, it's the young, it's the young ones whizzing around on them. And it's like the
01:18now cool thing and all that to be whizzing around on them. But at the end of the day, they're
01:23not needed. And obviously the stats show that.
01:26Well, I hope the prime minister is listening to you.
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