Column: Danny Peña was riding a Bird e-scooter when he crashed into a sidewalk buckled by invasive tree roots. Turns out Bird’s user agreement tries to make riders responsible for their scooter accidents in L.A.
, it’s against the law to ride them on streets where the speed limit exceeds 25 mph and there is no bike lane, or on sidewalks.
The city lost a motion to get the lawsuit thrown out and turned to Bird for help with the case. In the failed motion, lawyers for the city argued the city did not know about the broken pavement or fig tree, that Peña accelerated down the hill , that he had consumed a “large amount of cognac” the night before, that he was over the scooter weight limit by 15 pounds and was wearing a backpack.
“This is like a snake eating its own tail,” Avina told me when we spoke by phone Thursday morning. “This guy lives on Medicare. He’s paralyzed.” Avina said experts estimate that Peña will require about $15 million for care over his lifetime.In response to my request for an interview about the case, a Bird spokeswoman emailed:
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