These damn kids and their e scooters! They’re an absolute accident waiting to……oh.
Almost like he was unqualified to operate that vehicle
If a 74 year old dies in a car crash, I’m not hard pushed to say they should be retaking their license by that age.
The mode of transport shouldn’t really be significant here – and wouldn’t be if it was anything other than an E-Scooter.
Are there any details on how this has happened? Not sure it’s right to speculate on anything until we know the full story.
It seems every month (or every other?) that we read of another e-scooter fatality.
TBH, it’s really of little import the age of the victim, when experience rears it’s head, with the fast-moving device itself or being on or near a public road, trauma becomes an inevitable “when” scenario, not an “if” one.
The fact that you only require a Q category licence (comes free with a provisional license, basically) means there is no proficiency standard to train or test.
Sadly, it will require fatalities amongst the approved Government rental e-scooter trials to change this, I think.
Heads up, most e-scooters purchasable or rentable in the UK are digitally speed limited to 20 Km per Hour or 12 Miles per hours. A speed most bikes can easily reach. When you see scooters going faster they are most likely hacked or imported without restrictions.
Personally I dont think they should require any license on the basis that a bike does not, assuming it is set to regulation speed. Im sure people would get very excited if any news outlet went to effort to tell you about every car/bike crash that happened.
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These damn kids and their e scooters! They’re an absolute accident waiting to……oh.
Almost like he was unqualified to operate that vehicle
If a 74 year old dies in a car crash, I’m not hard pushed to say they should be retaking their license by that age.
The mode of transport shouldn’t really be significant here – and wouldn’t be if it was anything other than an E-Scooter.
Are there any details on how this has happened? Not sure it’s right to speculate on anything until we know the full story.
It seems every month (or every other?) that we read of another e-scooter fatality.
TBH, it’s really of little import the age of the victim, when experience rears it’s head, with the fast-moving device itself or being on or near a public road, trauma becomes an inevitable “when” scenario, not an “if” one.
The fact that you only require a Q category licence (comes free with a provisional license, basically) means there is no proficiency standard to train or test.
Sadly, it will require fatalities amongst the approved Government rental e-scooter trials to change this, I think.
Heads up, most e-scooters purchasable or rentable in the UK are digitally speed limited to 20 Km per Hour or 12 Miles per hours. A speed most bikes can easily reach. When you see scooters going faster they are most likely hacked or imported without restrictions.
Personally I dont think they should require any license on the basis that a bike does not, assuming it is set to regulation speed. Im sure people would get very excited if any news outlet went to effort to tell you about every car/bike crash that happened.