A man wants the court to get data from electric scooters to identify the runner who sheltered him who put him in the hospital

A man who was struck and left unconscious last month by an unknown person driving the wrong way on an electric scooter takes legal action to obtain the rider's data.

Allyson Medeiros, a 32-year-old Chicago-based tattoo artist, was returning home from work in the Wicker Park area on June 20, after being hit hard by the runner who drove the scooter against traffic, the Washington Post. reported Wednesday.

The accident stunned Medeiros and caused him many serious injuries, including broken bones and teeth, and a "dangerous amount of air in the ribcage," according to a GoFundMe page to help cover him. cost of his medical expenses. He was treated in the trauma unit at night and required more than 20 stitches. His jaw is closed by a wire, according to the Post Office.

A few weeks after the incident, we still do not know who hit him or what kind of electric scooter they were driving. But the incident occurred just days after the launch of Chicago's e-scooter pilot program, in an area of ​​the city where 10 companies (Bird, Bolt, Gruv, Jump, Lime, Lyft, Sherpa, Spin, VeoRide and Wheel) filed their applications. scooters (the program is not urban). As part of the program, up to 2,500 scooters are allowed in the zones.

Bryant Greening, Medeiros' lawyer, told Gizmodo on Wednesday that even though his client had not seen the mark of the electric scooter that had hit him, he was "very confident that It was one of the electric scooters being part of the city program. "If any of them know that one of its riders is responsible of the incident, he does not say it.

Greening, co-founder of LegalRideshare, a company that deals exclusively with carpool-related personal injury cases, said electric scooter companies, as well as the city, had received a letter informing them of the problem. and asking them to keep data related to the incident. Following an absence of a "significant response", Greening filed a petition this week in the court naming the city and the companies and asking a judge to order them to return the data related to the incident.

According to Greening, this involves naming companies or runners that may have been in the area at the time of the Medeiros accident. Greening told La Poste that he had taken this step to ward off any potential data loss, which, he said over the phone, could include an inadvertent or inadvertent loss of information. an advertiser.

"By putting them on notice and then filing this action, we think it would be illegal for this data to disappear," he told Gizmodo. "And Allyson's chances of recovery depend entirely on the discovery of the responsible parties."

On Wednesday, the GoFundMe page of Medeiros raised more than $ 12,300 on its $ 50,000 goal in just 16 days. The page said that he "will recover completely," but Greening said that Medeiros "still suffers and that he still has a long way in front of him," adding that he could suffer from the "damage". other surgeries in the future. According to GoFundMe, Medeiros does not have health insurance and donations will help it pay the bills related to the accident.