Scooters are dangerous and you see teenagers in traffic on them all the time.
They need to be legislated for or we will see more of this – I nearly knocked two kids (on one scooter) over recently because they cut through moving traffic.
Very sad, but why are E-Scooters allowed to be sold? It’s illegal to ride them in public (unless they are part of a specific local authority trial and you have a driving license or provisional). And riding them illegally is Dangerous Driving and can get you a driving ban if the police enforce it (which to be honest is rare, but still)
I’m a passionate cyclist and pisses me off to hear teenagers on scooters saying how riding on the road is too dangerous.
Then they go and ride out into a road to cross it next to a t-junction blindly.
They’re fun yes but a lot of people are using them for transportation with the illusion they’re safer than a push bike used on the road.
They’re wrong, if we had a dedicated cycle infrastructure they would likely work. The nature of they’re high speed non-visible on and off pavement riding style makes the likelihood of collisions very high.
I was hit by one after overtaking a bus at a stop. The escooter rider used the fact the bus was blocking the road to cross as he could see no traffic coming in the opposite direction, however he couldn’t see me coming as he was in front of the bus.
He forgot bikes exist. This is part of the issue, cycling on roads teaches you a lot of road sense. Going from never using any kind of 2 wheeled transportation to a scooter with only a rear brake is a bad combination.
If I was on a motorcycle they could of been very seriously injured or worse.
The UK sort of made this environment where it’s shit to get places and expensive if you don’t own a car. Riding a bike on the roads can feel like cars are hostile and this further compounds the issue of illegal escooter ownership.
All a symptom of poor infrastructure, falling income and increasing transport costs.
It’s sad.
The e scooter she was riding crashed into a van??
You mean she crashed into a van while riding an e scooter
The fault is either hers or the vans, not the e scooter
Good to see all the victim blaming comments. Girl dies after getting hit by a van and somehow it’s the scooter that is dangerous. Article even framed as ‘scooter hits van’ despite the fact this wouldn’t kill her but ‘van hits scooter’ would.
Everyone is complaining about scooters and where fault lies and I’m wondering why she was not in school and why a 14 yr old owns an electric scooter.
How fast was this scooter going, that riding it into a van proved fatal? You’d think you’d pretty much bounce off the side of something like that, you might have bruises, maybe a fracture. But death?
Or, wait a moment. Was it perhaps not so much that the scooter collided with a van, but that the van hit the scooter? Which party to the collision actually brought the deadly kinetic energy to the scene? Should the headline here be something more like ‘dies after being run over with a van’?
Oh well. At least the article honestly describes it as a ‘crash’ – so many of these killings on our roads are described in the news as ‘accidents’, just unfortunate things that happen, what can you do, eh?
Another problem with road users is the complete lack of coordination, observation, reaction speeds, reflexes, awareness timing, and all these things that require precision action in split seconds to make decisions.
I’d rather give a license to someone who gets 10th prestige on call of duty than to some young 17 year old girl that makes tik tok and Instagram videos.
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Very sad.
Scooters are dangerous and you see teenagers in traffic on them all the time.
They need to be legislated for or we will see more of this – I nearly knocked two kids (on one scooter) over recently because they cut through moving traffic.
Very sad, but why are E-Scooters allowed to be sold? It’s illegal to ride them in public (unless they are part of a specific local authority trial and you have a driving license or provisional). And riding them illegally is Dangerous Driving and can get you a driving ban if the police enforce it (which to be honest is rare, but still)
I’m a passionate cyclist and pisses me off to hear teenagers on scooters saying how riding on the road is too dangerous.
Then they go and ride out into a road to cross it next to a t-junction blindly.
They’re fun yes but a lot of people are using them for transportation with the illusion they’re safer than a push bike used on the road.
They’re wrong, if we had a dedicated cycle infrastructure they would likely work. The nature of they’re high speed non-visible on and off pavement riding style makes the likelihood of collisions very high.
I was hit by one after overtaking a bus at a stop. The escooter rider used the fact the bus was blocking the road to cross as he could see no traffic coming in the opposite direction, however he couldn’t see me coming as he was in front of the bus.
He forgot bikes exist. This is part of the issue, cycling on roads teaches you a lot of road sense. Going from never using any kind of 2 wheeled transportation to a scooter with only a rear brake is a bad combination.
If I was on a motorcycle they could of been very seriously injured or worse.
The UK sort of made this environment where it’s shit to get places and expensive if you don’t own a car. Riding a bike on the roads can feel like cars are hostile and this further compounds the issue of illegal escooter ownership.
All a symptom of poor infrastructure, falling income and increasing transport costs.
It’s sad.
The e scooter she was riding crashed into a van??
You mean she crashed into a van while riding an e scooter
The fault is either hers or the vans, not the e scooter
Good to see all the victim blaming comments. Girl dies after getting hit by a van and somehow it’s the scooter that is dangerous. Article even framed as ‘scooter hits van’ despite the fact this wouldn’t kill her but ‘van hits scooter’ would.
Everyone is complaining about scooters and where fault lies and I’m wondering why she was not in school and why a 14 yr old owns an electric scooter.
How fast was this scooter going, that riding it into a van proved fatal? You’d think you’d pretty much bounce off the side of something like that, you might have bruises, maybe a fracture. But death?
Or, wait a moment. Was it perhaps not so much that the scooter collided with a van, but that the van hit the scooter? Which party to the collision actually brought the deadly kinetic energy to the scene? Should the headline here be something more like ‘dies after being run over with a van’?
Oh well. At least the article honestly describes it as a ‘crash’ – so many of these killings on our roads are described in the news as ‘accidents’, just unfortunate things that happen, what can you do, eh?
Another problem with road users is the complete lack of coordination, observation, reaction speeds, reflexes, awareness timing, and all these things that require precision action in split seconds to make decisions.
I’d rather give a license to someone who gets 10th prestige on call of duty than to some young 17 year old girl that makes tik tok and Instagram videos.