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Nearly 500 seriously injured in e-scooter collisions in Great Britain last year
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Good point, enforcement is another important issue. I find it annoying how many illegal e-cycles are around and tolerated. I bet all the batteries causing fires are not on legal e-bikes. Generally though, police enforcement of anything road based has declined massively as their funding and numbers have been reduced by austerity.
I regularly see car drivers on their phones, speeding, going through red lights or other issues. Let's be fair though, if you wanted to improve road safety, cars and trucks would be much higher on the list than e-bikes or e-scooters full stop. Once we get a handle on those then let's go after all the illegal e-bikes and e-scooters etc
If the police want to get up to pre-budget cut numbers they can just sit out at the bottom of my street and fine every idiot that comes down because they've all got e-scooters, they're all going way too fast, and they all ride in the middle of the road. There's a bus station right at the bottom of the street but I've never seen a single one of them get run over, very disappointing.