Hoverboard Injuries, Fires on Rise
By Kathleen Doheny
Dec. 10, 2015 -- Adam Collelo thought he had bought his 12-year-old son Luke the coolest birthday present: a new $499 hoverboard.
Luke looked like he was having so much fun that Collelo, 34, decided to give it a try. "I got on, got the hang of it, and everything was going good," says Collelo, of Milwaukee.
The next day, trouble struck. "I don't know if I was overconfident, or what," he says. "I kind of Super-manned off it and somersaulted.'' Upon landing, he says, "my whole body went numb." His arm was severely swollen. At the emergency room, they confirmed that he’d fractured his radius -- a forearm bone extending from the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist. "I'll probably need 12 weeks off work," he says.