A woman sued Lime because her daughter had been a victim of a scooter accident that had left her in a vegetative state

Most days, at the end of the shift Ashanti Jordan at Broward General Medical Center, her colleagues take her home.

But on a sunny day in late December, the 28-year-oldwho worked as a security guard, he decided that he would make the trip four miles (six kilometers) go home on a scooter of the well-known brand, lime, one of the many products in the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to family members.

Jordan, who He was not wearing a helmet at that time, he was halfway there when he hit a Toyota Corolla at an intersection in a residential area.

The violent collision threw Jordan about 30 meters away and left him with fractures, ribs and a brain injury. catastrophic, noted the family members. To relieve the pressure in your swollen brain, thatThe doctors had to remove a large part of their skull. Today, more than six weeks after the accident, Jordan remains in the vegetative state and started having seizures, forcing doctors to send her back to the hospital's intensive care unit, say family members.

On Monday, Tracy Jordan announced her intention to sue Lime, one of the world's largest electric scooter companies, on behalf of her daughter for negligence, according to Todd R. Falzone, a lawyer specializing in personal injury of Fort Lauderdale who represents Tracy Jordan as guardian of her daughter. Falzone says the application of lime includes a language that specifically tells people do not use scooters on local sidewalks, but pushes them in the streets of the city.

Many experts consider that motorized vehicles are a danger and their use on the street is illegal in Florida, although Fort Lauderdale clears electric scooters on sidewalks. Because Jordan followed Lime's instructions, Falzone said she was avoiding the sidewalk and suffering catastrophic injuries.

"Until now, they are telling users to break the law and as a result, people are doing it"said Falzone at a press conference Monday. "They are hit by cars, pedestrians, they suffer all kinds of accidents that should not happen," he added.

"Unfortunately," he added, "Ashanti will pay for it with his life."

Lime did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

Demand reaches around a week after the death of an Irish student participating in a 21-year-old exchange following a motorcycle accident and a lime vehicle in Austin. Police said Mark Sands was traveling in the wrong direction with this type of Lime transport on a busy downtown street early on the morning of February 1, when an Uber driver hit him. and seriously injured him. He was taken to the Dell Seton Medical Center, where he died the next day, authorities said.

He appears to be the third person killed in an accident involving lime scooters in the last months.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Study Health Risks Associated with Electric Scooters badyzing the injuries of cyclists and pedestrians in Austin for two months. Last week, a CDC spokesman told him The Washington Post that the study should be completed in the spring. In Fort Lauderdale, where scooters arrived in November, large-scale accidents made the aircraft highly controversial, the report said. South Florida Sun Sentinel.

"According to the Fort Lauderdale Fire Department, Between December 1st and January 31st, there were 40 incidents with scooters ", said a subsidiary of ABC, WPLG. "In total, 31 of them required the transportation of a person to the hospital and four of them were level 1 injuries."

This transport – which has received significant investments from Uber and Alphabet – has been valued at more than $ 1,000 million.according to Bloomberg News, despite that the company admits that some of their models caught fire and broke in half while people were riding them. At the same time, this investment was invested in Lime,injured scooter drivers began to enter emergency rooms across the country (United States)This has led some doctors to accuse companies like Bird and Lime of generating a public health crisis.

Falzone said that the family Jordan is one of the most tragic examples of this crisis. If the company's request asks people to violate local laws in a city, pbadengers from other cities could also be in danger.

Falzone provided The post office an image that says that this comes from the "rules and regulations" of the Lime application. The rules, to which pbadengers must "accept" the use of the scooter, included the following phrase: "Do not drive on the sidewalk". In addition to being printed on the outside of the scooter, this same message appears three times in the application, said Falzone, who accused Lime to violate its operating agreement with Fort Lauderdale, which The company must inform pbadengers on how to drive their scooter (safely and legally). "

"I fear that people across the country are lacking in nothing and do not understand if they are supposed to be driving on the street or on the sidewalk," he said. "You trust the company to know the local regulations."

Falzone said his client was seeking compensatory damages covering possible disabilities, mental anguish and hospitalization expenses.as well as long-term medical care and loss of income.

Before getting hurt, says Falzone, Jordan was an extrovert woman with an independent personality, many friends, and hip hop. After high school, she said, she decided that she wanted to create a job, by boldly inserting herself into a male-dominated craft.

Despite her harshness, she said, she has always had a special relationship with children, whether with her four brothers or with her neighbors.

In recent years, said Falzone, Jordan worked in the Broward General Medical Center, in the same hospital where his mother worked. The work kept the two women close, he said, but Tracy Jordan did not expect to see her daughter as a patient at her workplace.

At the press conference on Monday, Jordan said that his daughter was still young, which could help her recover. She's still fighting, she said, but it's hard to avoid reminders of her daughter's suffering on the streets of Fort Lauderdale.

"I can not bear to see a scooter, It's very traumatic right now, "he said. I have to cover my eyes. "