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This happens with bicycles pretty regularly too.
What oversight exists for bicycles?
Helmet laws; 200 years of largely safety-focused design refinements; significant safety regulations regarding things like brakes, lights, where they can be ridden...
None of these things apply to scooters, which is why the injury rate for scooters per distance travelled is roughly 115/million trips vs 15/million trips for bicycles.
Scooters come with brake lights, indicators... And as far as I know, in most countries the scooters and bicycles are in a similar or same category so the same helmet laws apply to both of them.
The problem is enforcement and education - bikes are usually owned, not rented, and people have been told for years why it's important to wear a helmet. A bicycle is a large thing that you leave locked, and you can lock the helmet together with the bike. With scooters you'd have to take the helmet with you so it's perceived as inconvenient, and we don't have years of messaging saying "wear a helmet with your scooter".
But to me enforcement is a big part of this. I live in a cycling city (mind you, a cycling city in the UK is still significantly more car-centric than central/northern Europe), and I have never heard of anyone getting fined for not wearing a helmet (neither on a scooter or bicycle). I routinely see people wearing dark clothes and no lights in their bike. If that's in the regulations, then clearly the police have better things to do. If nobody gets a fine, and there's no education drilling into people's heads that the helmet is important, then people won't bother.