Re: e-Scooters
They can reach dangerous speed and unless restricted injuries and fatalities will rise.
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More than 200 injuries to e-scooter riders have been recorded in London in the past two years, according to police, along with 39 incidents of pedestrians being hurt after being struck by an e-scooter.
Campaigners believe the true figure is higher, and called last night for the London pilot scheme, which follows 57 similar trials across the country, to be halted.
Sarah Gayton, street access campaign co-ordinator at the National Federation of the Blind, said: ‘It is absolutely shocking that TfL is launching yet more rentable e-scooter trials.
'It is very clear from other ongoing trials in the UK that there are inherent dangers to all pedestrians from how the e-scooters are being ridden. It is pure recklessness for the trials to start in London and we would ask TfL to withdraw from them.’
Police have backed the trial, but Matthew Scott, the Police and Crime Commissioner in Kent, said: ‘We’re in danger of... placing additional burdens on policing. Too many people are using them in places they shouldn’t.’
A problem that should have been anticipated.