As a disabled woman sick of being terrified on the pavement to feel happy reading about the destruction of e-scooters and e-bikes?

You can tell the mood of the public when one of them gets hit by a car. It's ah well, and good wishes to the driver of the car that hit them.

Stupid parents buy them for their equally stupid offspring.
Crush the lot of them.

I think someone died in Perth because of an irresponsible drunk escooter rider.

We don't get many here tbh

Around here the police did a thing of stopping anyone who had e-bikes that were clearly modified to go faster than intended. It seems to have made sod all difference.

Yep, a total menace! The other day, I drove past 2 people, both on an e bike. The main rider was blindfolded and doing wheelies in the middle of the road! Absolutely un bloody believable!

I actually think the illegality of electric scooters and certain types of electric bikes is a big part of the problem, it’s means they have greater appeal to a certain ‘type’. If they were legal and required at least a AM, maybe even A1 motorbike licence and compulsory tax and insurance, they’d be less of an issue.

I'm not disabled and I havent been hit by one but I agree they are a f**king menace..
Only yesterday I read an article about a young teenage boy getting an electric bike foe Christmas..went out on it, caused absolutely mayhem. The police confiscated and crushed it.
I must admit I did smile at this news 🤣🤣

I agree with you. Not disabled but often out walking with my 4yo and can’t let her run ahead on a straight stretch or even not hold my hand 24/7 because she’s almost been hit by these multiple times. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were noisy but I feel I spend a lot of time looking over my shoulder on certain stretches because it doesn’t feel safe

We had a trial in my city. They did nothing but provide the scooters. They should have had a dedicated scooter lane added or something but they didn't so it all failed. I do wonder if the money they get from car parks wasn't an incentive to let it fail.

Cycle lanes. The choice is between road and pavement neither of which is safe

This sounds like a journo

So get your pitchforks out. Time to tell me what an abomination I am....its eniveitable.

Not at all. I agree with you & I'm very fit & able-bodied.

I wish they'd crack down on the fucking Deliveroo delivery cyclists who seem to think the pavement is theirs.

Therein lies the problem. In most of Europe these are legal and promoted, hence the majority of users are normal law abiding, reasonably careful people.

In the UK they are illegal, hence the majority of users are kids and people that don't give a crap about rules and regs, and are much more likely to buy higher power models (breaking the law anyway so why not double down), and ride them irresponsibly.

To make matters worse they are demonised by the press, which makes them cooler for the scrote brigade and the vicious circle continues.

Like all 'cool' things, they need to be legalised in a structured manner, adopted by the masses, and you can guarantee once your grandma is bumbling around on one the scrotes will shun them.

They do my head in! Even more so with the evenings being dark and you can't see or hear them. I know of someone who was airlifted to hospital after being knocked over by one of the bikes. She had a severe head injury. Thankfully survived but the twat on the bike was never found

Don’t forget mobility scooters too! I was literally hit by 4 in the supermarket the other day! At one point I was totally boxed in. There needs to be a limit on how many are let loose at one time.

Can I add those hoverboards, absolute menace on the pavements, I had a close one some years ago where the rider came round a corner and hit me, wasn't to bothered when I said they were illegal.

A young lad (9) that lives on our road got one for a Christmas present his dad was showing him how to use it Christmas day in the street. It's irrelevant to him that they're illegal DC wanted one so that's what he got.

I think e-scooters and e-bikes could be the saviours of many towns and cities but the councils refuse to put in the infrastructure.

I didn’t realise that if you do get caught riding one of these in a pedestrian area you can get points on your car licence. And if you don’t have one, they will create one for your points even if you are underage.

It's a start, but why not spare the bikes and put the inconsiderate riders in the crusher?

Riding without due care and attention is a problem with or without electric power, I’ve been hit twice in my life, once by a cyclist (normal bike, very aggressive rider who had jumped a red light) and by a mobility scooter that the owner couldn’t control properly.

think all devices cap able of more than 5km an hour should have third insurance if being used on public roads or other thoroughfares, and all devices with electric power should have a compulsory training course to get permission on your licence, including aforementioned mobility scooters

The police are allowed to confiscate them if they see them in ridden on a public highway. (And then yes, they are destroyed).

We hired them in Berlin which worked well as they had a proper cycle lane network. The UK generally doesn't.

Completely agree and many just ignore the rules even if they are on the roads rather than the pavements. Regularly see them just going through red lights or diagonally across junctions without even looking. have had one very near miss myself and can't imagine how scary it must be for older people or those with limited mobility. It just seems that society is just full of absolute anti-social menaces of all sorts at the moment, these just being one part of the problem.

So get your pitchforks out. Time to tell me what an abomination I am....its eniveitable.

I'm not sure what all this ^^ is about? Most people find them a menace.

My 6ft 2" well built son walked out of a shop and got knocked up in the air by a 14 year old kid on an electric scooter.

He then had the front to start giving my son attitude about it!!

In what circumstances? Like, if they see someone riding one on the pavement, can they order them off it and crush it before their eyes?
I don’t really want the bikes destroyed, I just want the cunts riding them on the pavement strongly discouraged from doing so.