"400 injuries to children with scooters in 2025" - Tragic death of 13-year-old in Ilia

Electric scooters have returned to the fore in recent years with adults, but also many minors, in Athens and in the countryside choosing them as a means of transportation.

Accidents, sometimes with tragic consequences, such as yesterday where a 13-year-old boy lost his life, are now frequent, with a means that does not provide any protection to its driver. The driver is fully exposed, the stability is not always good, in many cases they are not clearly visible on the roads or sidewalks that move and at the same time develop speeds that are high for such a means of transportation, with all the danger that this entails.

Giannakos: Over 400 children injured in 2025 from falls on scooters

The president of hospital staff union POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, said: "Yesterday afternoon at six, a 13-year-old boy came to the Kresteni hospital seriously injured from a fall from a scooter. With a serious problem in the sternum and serious cranio-cerebral injuries. With mydriasis. An attempt was made to resuscitate him by a general practitioner, a pediatrician, for over 20 minutes. A defibrillator was also installed but unfortunately the child ended up dead. So here the question arises whether a child should be able to take a skate and move on the asphalt without a helmet and without actually knowing the Highway Code. And I say this because last year alone we had 400 injuries to children, from falls from scooters, some more serious and some less serious, while we also had fatal incidents. And we are talking about children 10, 12, 14 years old. 200 of them in the two pediatric hospitals of Athens. In "Agia Sophia" and "Aglaia Kyriakou". Many of them seriously injured. Great attention is required from both families and from the control mechanisms. Not everyone can find a skate on the street, pick it up and move around uncontrollably. "A resident of the area spoke to iefimerida and described how the accident happened, emphasizing the bad psychological state in which the entire village is.

"A tragic event. His family is known. Friends. We are all in a very bad psychological state. The whole village is mourning. A lovely child left us so unjustly."

Krestena: A resident of the village describes how the scooter accident happened

"He was returning with two of his friends from school on these electric scooters. He bumped into a parked vehicle, got scared and ran into an oncoming car. But the car had already stopped. The driver had seen the children and stopped the vehicle to let them pass. But the child fell from the scooter and unfortunately was seriously injured. Drama. The incident happened on a small road in the village. You can't develop speed there," the resident of Kresteni described with heartache.

"The boy's family is also very popular in the village, but the driver of the car is a very calm person. In fact, his acquaintances in the past teased him about driving because he drives too slowly. He saw the children and he stopped but the child fell hard on him...", he added.