E-Scooter casualties under reported

[Scottish Scrutineer]

https://www.pacts.org.uk/wp-content...e-scooter-casualty-under-reporting-Report.pdf

Probably comes as no surprise, but at least there is awareness that these, often illegal, scooters are involved in many unrecorded incidents which result in injury.

 

[raleighnut]

Dunno about e-scooters but as a lad I had a scooter and was always falling off it, once they start 'twitching' at any speed that's it.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Theres already an escooter thread here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/e...d-on-public-roads.258457/page-29#post-7140411

 

[Drago]

Ban them!

Oh, wait...

 

[steveindenmark]

I have a Kickbike and the large front wheel which makes all the difference. As a kid I rode those scooters with little wheels and they were an accident waiting to happen. You would not get me on an electric scooter.

 

[Drago]

Only a minor injury, but the magistrate clearly didnt like the cut of this lads jib...

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/...th-pedestrian-on-northampton-footpath-5329233

 

[raleighnut]

Only a minor injury, but the magistrate clearly didnt like the cut of this lads jib...

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/...th-pedestrian-on-northampton-footpath-5329233

Should have locked him up.....................Twunt.

 

[mjr]

Only a minor injury, but the magistrate clearly didnt like the cut of this lads jib...

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/...th-pedestrian-on-northampton-footpath-5329233

That's some truly terrible and confused reporting that wibbles on and on about a footpath when it later sounds like it was the pavement, mentions someone being jailed and then it sounds like the jailed person drove a car into an e-scooter rider, and then finished off with some more wibble about private e-scooters being illegal because you can't buy insurance for them which isn't the main reason at all! It seems The Chronic doesn't get any better with age or distance.

 

[Drago]

That newspaper is knkwn locally as the Chronic and Error for good reason.