Skateboarding is big business. In recent years, the skateboard gear market has grown to $600 million a year.rnThanks to the surge in popularity, another number has become fairly high as well: More than 100,000 skateboarding injuries are treated in U.S. emergency rooms each year. Skaters often don't have safe common areas in which to practice their art, so they congregate in parking lots, streets, and other places where collisions with vehicles are all but inevitable.
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