So many E-scooter deaths..

The police need to enforce the law. They are lethal and the ones I see they all weave in and out of traffic with no regard

either they are illegal and therefore should t be sold, or they are made legal, have to pay tax and insurancee and wear safety equipment and have lights for use at nights

Yep Police around here don't seem to give a fuck about any crimes.

The legal ones are restricted to people with driving licences (tho I see people on them who are definitely too young to have a licence) and they're limited to 25km per hour which is quite slow

The illegal ones should officially not be used on public roads and often have no speed limiters

They need to be banned completely. They are a f**king nightmare. A 13 year old youth local to me is currently in ICU with serious head injuries from riding at speed on a e scooter. No doubt this is replicated across the UK, along with those who have been hit and seriously injured/killed by some moron riding one. Parents of these youngsters are enabling this by buying escooters/ebikes for their brats. They need to face the consequences as well

Do you mean electric scooter like 🛴 or 🛵?

There was a recent death I heard about but couldn't remember much details so I Googled it and, oh my word, the number of results...! There was even one where a woman died after a scooter hit her.

YANBU

You can hire one in my town. You have to register on an app and have a provisional driving licence to do so. I think the idea was to reduce car journeys but actually people using them are likely doing so as an alternative to walking or just for fun.
I nearly drove into one last week as it came round a bend towards me on the wrong side of the road.
I also see kids on them so someone with a driving licence must have hired it and would get the points on their license if there was a problem.

Well, in our town you can actually hire one legally.

No helmet & anyone who pays can ride it.... a nuisance at best!
Sadly, they are here to stay.

They're illegal, therefore anyone riding one on the road is ultimately taking a risk. I don't think there should be tests. I have no idea why parents would allow it. Idiots all round.

Hopefully they'll eventually learn from all the deaths. I wouldn't hold my breath though...

I’d actually just quite like the police to enforce the law, and crack down on the illegal activities. Round here they are supremely unconcerned.

For bonus points we could properly resource trading standards to make a dent in the cheap Chinese crap that keep on burning down houses.

The thugs riding electric motorbikes, which is what most of them are where deaths happen, are unlikely to be the sort of law abiding citizens who'll happily do a test and follow the highway code.

Every issue I've seen in the press has been teenage boys/young adults trying to avoid the police.