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05-07-2021, 10:09 AM
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Re: e-Scooters

Where are pedestrians supposed to walk, the pavements are crowded with joggers, mobility scooters, bikes doing wheelies or half on/off parked vehicles.
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05-07-2021, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Cinderella ->
E scooters are powered, under the law are classified as “motor vehicle” obviously require tax and insurance.

People unaware that they are breaking the law as they are not allowed on roads or pavements.

Police have issued a warning over e-scooters and urge people to be clear on the law before using them.

Although e-scooters can be bought, they cannot be ridden on a UK public road, cycle lane or pavement – the only place an e-scooter can be used is on private land.11 Jun 2021
Just one small point, Electric Bikes (road legal or not) are Tax Exempt.

"Are electric motorcycles exempt from road tax? Yes, the vehicle must be entirely powered by battery; that means no hybrids. Read more about electric motorcycles".
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05-07-2021, 12:30 PM
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They can reach dangerous speed and unless restricted injuries and fatalities will rise.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-bicycles.html

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.
 
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