Pensioner Hit by an E-Scooter Says It's Time to Crack Down on Users

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67-year-old Shirley Smith from Kettering had been walking from her driveway towards a friend's car when she was ploughed into by a woman riding a Voi rental e-scooter. Shirley was left with severe bruising all over her body and still needs medical treatment for back pain since the incident on the 9th of April. The woman responsible has since been banned by e-scooter provider Voi. Shirley and her husband, chip shop owner Mike, 76, are calling for new laws to be put in place to protect pedestrians from e-scooters, and for harsher punishments for e-scooter riders breaking the law.
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@jameswalker199 26 дней назад

People don't realise that these things are essentially electric motorbikes, and probably about as heavy as well. You wouldn't ride a petrol powered motorcycle on the path, why would you ride an electric one on it? Just the same as how electric cars are still subject to the same laws as petrol cars, e-scooters should be too (which in theory they are, but I'm not aware of it being enforced). She was lucky she didn't hit her head and was killed. I've seen people trip over, hit their head, and die before now (we were on holiday and couldn't leave where we were staying until the police had gathered evidence) so if you can die from just tripping up and landing wrong, you can certainly be killed by a heavy e-scooter.

@Diana-lk6gx 25 дней назад

Disgraceful behaviour. Imagine how much this could set back someone vulnerable. May this lady get well soon. Ban these e scooters on pavements.

@NekoChan25692 24 дня назад

It’s not the scooter, it’s the rider

@williamthompson4389 25 дней назад

The whole situation is totally out of hand. I am 80 years of age and live in Ratby. Leicester. I witness almost every night on my walk up to the local pub boys on e-scooters riding at high speed on either the road or pavement without lights at night. Fortunately I have so far only been knocked to the ground twice! It is also the same situation during the day in the city centre with several e-scooters being driven at high speed by young men in pedestrian areas. I, like so many others, have had some very near misses.

@chrissysolorio3565 24 дня назад

"Only twice" is too many times.

@t5jerry 20 дней назад

Electric scooters are legal in the UK, but only if you use them following the laws which detail how to use them. It is also legal to purchase an electric scooter in the UK. The main rule for the use of electric scooters is that if it is your own private scooter, you can only use the e-scooter ON PRIVATE LAND !!!!!

@jellymulder 26 дней назад

e-scooters and electric bikes are an absolute menace

@jameswalker199 26 дней назад

They are battery powered motorcycles to my mind. Even if it was a Vespa, you wouldn't ride a petrol powered moped on the path.

@anidfan2 25 дней назад

67 ? She looks great for her age

@rogerbarton1790 24 дня назад

My front door opens straight onto the pavement and delivery drivers use next door's dropped kerb to mount the pavement and drive along it with one wheel still in the road. It's got to the stage where I need to do my kerb drill just to leave my premises!

@25stevent 26 дней назад

it's no different than a pushbike

@TheAegisClaw 25 дней назад

Exactly. Could've been a 10 year old on a bicycle. You have to be aware of your surroundings. This is just tabloid style scaremongering.

@Neil-qf6df 26 дней назад

Shirley should have looked before crossing the pathway....

@JamesBiggins-xb4wo 25 дней назад

Yeah but e-scooter shouldn’t of been on pavement in 1st place

@Neil-qf6df 25 дней назад

@@JamesBiggins-xb4wo You should always be aware of your surroundings....regardless

@nothanks1239 25 дней назад

Nobody steps onto a path expecting to be hit by a speeding vehicle. Don't talk nonsense. This was absolutely not her fault.

@Neil-qf6df 25 дней назад

@@nothanks1239 Nobody steps onto a path expecting to collide with another pedestrian either, always look before stepping out, it's just common sense. If she had been looking she would have avoided being hit, always expect the unexpected.

@Pandabubba9 26 дней назад

There has to be rules like that about the sidewalk I hate to say it, but a lot of it is from situational awareness Be smart about what you’re doing and then there’s not gonna be a problem usually Same thing as why there’s not drinking at amusement parks because someone couldn’t handle the liquor or drank too much and fell off a high tower (etc.

@tom4626 26 дней назад

There is - but the police don’t enforce

@jamiemcglynn6600 24 дня назад

I got pulled to the ground by one in 2017 via the handlebar. Something that should NEVER been invented...

@julianshepherd2038 26 дней назад

Ive been run down by a cyclist and a motorist. Former was sore for few days, the latter changed my life.

@simonpearson5150 23 дня назад

So should bikes but the police don't do anything about either

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@gavinsmith9564 26 дней назад

Mobility scooters too, lots of Pensioners driving dangerously on pavements way too fast.

@louisslater9125 23 дня назад

The presenters are clueless. E-scooters are currently illegal from pavements AND roads currently.

@theukeconomist6518 25 дней назад

And nothing happened to the rider, probably got a pat on the head and left without having to pay charges.

@JamesBiggins-xb4wo 25 дней назад

Shouldn’t ban them just cause some people don’t ride them properly should we ban electric bikes as well

@robertharvey6030 25 дней назад

This is a good point, think this is what people miss. There are bad operators of every veichle, should we also ban cars? It needs better enforcement, I am an ebike rider with a complient 250w motor, the amount of 1000w plus ebikes that can go over 50mph wizzing around is crazy.

@jocelinerichemond4128 26 дней назад

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@blueflame316 26 дней назад

Just ban them outright

@superdylan803 26 дней назад

No they should add a e scooter/bike lane if you want to ban them you’ve never driven one

@AlanowyShow 26 дней назад

@@superdylan803 where?>> the roads are narrow enough and cyclists dont use them

@superdylan803 26 дней назад

@@AlanowyShow well people whine about them being on pavements and whine about them being on roads where they suppose to be?

@ezioauditoredafirenze2093 25 дней назад

Espero q los mandatarios de este país soluble y en descomposición, estén satisfechos. Vuestro tiempo se acaba junto a vuestras mentiras.

@datboijay4657 25 дней назад

Pure British banter they would lose their minds visiting an American university everyone owns one 😹

@arkatheistcc2353 25 дней назад

She did walk right out in front of them, still wrong but know your surrounding

@MegaDarkhair 24 дня назад

always the old people its not a Childs world its dangerous

@xSMOKExEMxALLx 26 дней назад

We don't really have these issues in Canada because our sidewalks are simply wider & we have bike lanes too. Can't the UK government make sidewalks wider because that sidewalk looks like its not even wide enough for people to walk past each other without bushing up against one another! Its funny to read all the silly comments of ban ban ban just because of other peeps negligence! Glad I moved from that country decades ago because its still going backwards 40 years later! lol

@JamesBiggins-xb4wo 25 дней назад

Some pavements wider in London some are narrow is annoying at times even when trying to past people walking

@jefferynorris9423 26 дней назад

Waist of time can't get a comment though anyway.

@anton__84 26 дней назад

She didn’t look she was the one who came out of nowhere

@tom4626 26 дней назад

Doesn’t matter it’s illegal to ride them on the pavements . Now theyre being modded - kids and adults are riding them at silly speeds

@xavr.x 26 дней назад

The police shouldn't ban them outright, I say minimum 13 year old+ use, illegal and immediate confiscation if ridden on the pavement. For under 16s, 20mph limit.