If you were injured in a Bird, Lime, or rental e-scooter accident in Beverly Hills, or struck by a scooter as a pedestrian, The Injury Partners Beverly Hills personal injury attorneys are here to help. Our founding attorneys Daniel Sabet and Omeed Hakimianpour, a Super Lawyers® Rising Stars honoree for 2025 and 2026, know how to overcome the arbitration and waiver clauses built into Bird and Lime user agreements. We handle every case on a contingency fee basis, meaning you pay nothing unless we win. Call us 24/7 at (310) 340-2419 for a free consultation.
If you were hurt on a Bird, Lime, or any rental e-scooter in Beverly Hills, or hit by a scooter as a pedestrian, California law gives you up to two years to pursue compensation, and signing a scooter app’s “waiver” does not end your case.
Beverly Hills concentrates heavy scooter traffic along its highest-risk corridors: Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Rodeo Drive, Canon Drive, Burton Way, and Olympic Boulevard. Tourist congestion, parked-car hazards, valet activity, and fast-moving vehicle traffic make these streets particularly dangerous for scooter riders and nearby pedestrians.
Riders and pedestrians both have potential claims after a scooter accident, but the legal framework differs. If you were riding a Bird or Lime scooter and a car hit you, your claim likely centers on the driver’s negligence and possibly the scooter’s condition. If you were a pedestrian struck by a scooter rider on the sidewalk, your case may involve the rider’s negligence and potentially the scooter company’s role in allowing or failing to prevent illegal sidewalk riding.
Research from UCLA Health suggests that e-scooter injury rates in the Los Angeles area may exceed the national motorcycle injury rate. Data tracked by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Consumer Product Safety Commission confirms that e-scooter injuries have risen sharply nationwide, and the National Association of City Transportation Officials reports continued growth in shared micromobility trips across major U.S. cities. The LA County Department of Public Health has also flagged e-scooter injuries as a growing public safety concern in its injury prevention data.
If you were hurt on a scooter in Beverly Hills, call (310) 340-2419 for a free consultation.
Get help and protect your evidence as quickly as possible.
Surveillance footage from nearby Beverly Hills businesses can be overwritten within days, and rental app data may become harder to access over time. The sooner you have an attorney involved, the more evidence survives.
The Injury Partners handles Bird, Lime, and rental e-scooter claims from our Beverly Hills office. That includes cases involving arbitration clauses, app waivers, defective scooters, and negligent drivers. You get big-firm strategy and boutique-level attention on your scooter case.
You work with a founding attorney from the first call. Our office is at 499 N. Canon Dr., Suite B1, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
You work with a founding attorney who understands both the corporate side and the injury side of these cases. That matters because Bird and Lime user agreements, arbitration clauses, and product-defect disputes demand a different kind of legal strategy.
Omeed’s corporate negotiation background gives our team an edge when dealing with scooter company legal departments and their insurers. Our Beverly Hills office sits near the corridors where these accidents happen most, and we coordinate with orthopedic specialists, neurologists, reconstruction experts, and product-liability engineers to build your case from the facts up.
Call The Injury Partners at (310) 340-2419 for a free consultation.
Most Beverly Hills e-scooter crashes trace back to one of four root causes: negligent drivers, defective scooters, poor road conditions, and pedestrian collisions on sidewalks. The root cause of your crash affects who you can hold responsible and how your case is built.
Beverly Hills is harder on scooter riders than most people realize. Dense street parking along commercial corridors like Rodeo Drive and Canon Drive puts riders in constant dooring danger. Add valet activity, rideshare pickups, turning traffic, and pedestrians, and you have a corridor where a scooter rider can get squeezed from every direction. On Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, you share lanes with fast-moving traffic, delivery trucks, and drivers who are not watching for scooters.
California scooter law directly affects your claim. Violations by you, by the driver who hit you, or by the scooter operator can shift fault and change what you recover. Insurers and defense attorneys will look at whether you were following these rules when the crash happened.
California and Beverly Hills Scooter Rules at a Glance
| Rule | Legal Authority | What It Means |
| Motorized scooter definition | CVC § 407.5 | A two-wheel device with handlebars, a floorboard, and an electric motor |
| Maximum speed | CVC § 22411 | Scooters may not exceed 15 mph on roadways or bikeways |
| License or permit required | CVC § 21235(d) | You must have a valid driver’s license or instruction permit to ride |
| Helmet requirement | CVC § 21235(c) and AB 2989 | Helmets are required if you are under 18 and strongly recommended for all riders |
| Passengers prohibited | CVC § 21235(e) | Motorized scooters are single-rider devices |
| Sidewalk riding prohibited | CVC § 21235(g) and BHMC § 7-2-308 | State law and Beverly Hills municipal code both prohibit riding scooters on sidewalks, with limited exceptions for entering or exiting adjacent property |
| Bike lane use | CVC § 21229 | You must use available bike lanes in certain roadway conditions |
| DUI prohibited | CVC § 21200.5 and CVC § 23152 | Riding under the influence is illegal and carries criminal penalties |
AB 2989, enacted in 2018, amended California’s scooter rules by updating helmet requirements and speed regulations for motorized scooters statewide. These amendments are the foundation of the current rules reflected in the table above.
Under California’s pure comparative negligence rule, your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault but not eliminated. If you were riding without a helmet and suffered a head injury, the insurer may argue your helmet violation contributed to the severity, but that argument reduces your damages rather than destroying your claim.
Beverly Hills sidewalk rules matter for both riders and pedestrians. If you were a pedestrian hit by a scooter rider on the sidewalk, the rider’s violation of CVC § 21235(g) and BHMC § 7-2-308 strengthens your negligence claim. If you were riding on the sidewalk and were injured, your violation may reduce your recovery under comparative negligence but does not necessarily bar it. Our bicycle accident lawyer Beverly Hills page covers similar bike-lane and road-sharing issues on these same corridors.
Local rules add additional layers. The City of Beverly Hills E-Vehicle Safety portal (beverlyhills.org) provides updated guidance on where scooters can and cannot be ridden. The Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) E-Vehicle Permit program may restrict minors from riding e-scooters near schools and on certain paths.
If you have questions about how scooter laws affect your claim, call (310) 340-2419 for a free case review.
Liability for your scooter accident may spread across multiple parties, and the scooter company’s waiver does not automatically bar your claim. Who is responsible depends on what caused the crash, where it happened, and who failed to protect you.
If the driver who hit you left the scene and cannot be identified, you may still have options. Your own auto insurance policy may include uninsured/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage that applies even when you were riding a scooter rather than driving a car. This coverage can provide a path to compensation when the at-fault driver cannot be found.
Bird and Lime user agreements typically require individual arbitration and waive class-action rights. Lime’s user agreement — which runs more than 35 pages — does not offer an opt-out provision. Bird’s agreement includes a 30-day window after account creation during which you can opt out of the arbitration clause in writing. If you did not opt out within that window, the arbitration provision likely applies to disputes with Bird directly.
These clauses can change where and how your claim against the scooter company is handled, and they should be taken seriously. But they do not protect every defendant in every scenario. The negligent driver who hit you is not covered by Bird’s terms of service. The city that failed to maintain the road is not a party to your Lime agreement. The manufacturer of a defective brake system faces its own liability regardless of what you agreed to in the app.
Even claims against the scooter company itself may still proceed. California courts have allowed claims to move forward under theories of gross negligence, product defect, and failure to warn — legal theories that cannot be fully waived in a consumer agreement. Whether your specific facts support these theories requires a detailed review of the agreement, the defect evidence, and the circumstances of your crash.
If you were hurt on a scooter in Beverly Hills, call (310) 340-2419 to discuss your options.
If you were hurt in a scooter crash in Beverly Hills, you may be able to recover compensation for both your financial losses and the personal impact of your injuries.
Recoverable Compensation in a Scooter Accident Claim:
Scooter injuries often affect younger riders, tourists, and commuters who may not anticipate the severity of a crash at 15 mph on pavement. For young professionals, the long-term impact can include lost earning capacity during peak career years. For families, a serious scooter injury creates a caretaking burden — managing medical appointments, covering household responsibilities, and supporting recovery from PTSD or permanent disfigurement — that extends far beyond the initial hospital stay.
Your claim’s value depends on liability, insurance coverage, defect evidence, comparative negligence, and how well your medical records document your injuries.
If your scooter accident case involves multiple liable parties, call (310) 340-2419 to understand what your claim may be worth.
If you were hurt on a Bird, Lime, or any rental e-scooter in Beverly Hills, The Injury Partners offer a free, confidential consultation 24/7 — and you pay nothing unless we win.
E-scooter accident claims are unlike any other personal injury case. Liability can shift between the rental company, a negligent driver, the City of Beverly Hills for hazardous road conditions, or even a third-party maintenance contractor — and the rental companies have buried mandatory arbitration clauses and liability waivers deep inside their user agreements. Sorting through those layers requires an attorney who has already navigated them, not one encountering rideshare and micromobility law for the first time on your case.
At The Injury Partners, every scooter accident client works directly with a founding attorney. Our co-founder Omeed Hakimianpour is a Super Lawyers® Rising Stars honoree for both 2025 and 2026 — a distinction earned by fewer than 2.5% of practicing attorneys in California. From your first conversation through the final resolution of your claim, you will have direct access to the attorney handling your case. No hand-offs, no gatekeepers.
We take every e-scooter accident case on a contingency fee basis. There are no retainers, no consultation fees, and no hourly charges. If we do not recover compensation for you, you owe us nothing. That guarantee removes any financial barrier between you and the representation you need.
Evidence in scooter accident cases is particularly fragile. California Code of Civil Procedure §335.1 provides a two-year filing deadline, but the data that can make or break your claim — GPS trip logs, scooter speed and braking telemetry, maintenance inspection records, and nearby surveillance footage — is routinely purged or overwritten on short retention cycles. Every day that passes without a preservation demand is a day that critical proof may be lost permanently.
Call (310) 340-2419 to speak with a Beverly Hills scooter accident lawyer right now. You can also start your free case review online, email info@theinjurypartners.com, or text us at (310) 340-2419.
The Injury Partners is located at 499 N. Canon Dr., Suite B1 Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
