A one-block scooter ride changed Tim Valdez’s life forever. Now he wants the companies behind the product to pay up.
On August 13, 2022, after a karaoke night at the Owl Saloon on East Colfax Avenue, Valdez rented a standing electric scooter from Lime to ride home at around 1 a.m. But 427 feet into his ride, he hit a small pothole on Elm Street, causing the scooter to oscillate out of control and crash into a parked car.
“I’m laying in the gutter and my first thought was, ‘Well, that sucked,'” Valdez, 56, recalls. “I went to get up, and I could not move. I could not move my body. That was how quick the injury happened to me. I didn’t feel a thing.”…