Pensioner Hit by an E-Scooter Says It's Time to Crack Down on Users

67-year-old Shirley Smith from Kettering had been walking from her driveway towards a friend's car when she was ploughed into by a woman riding a Voi rental e-scooter. Shirley was left with severe bruising all over her body and still needs medical treatment for back pain since the incident on the 9th of April. The woman responsible has since been banned by e-scooter provider Voi. Shirley and her husband, chip shop owner Mike, 76, are calling for new laws to be put in place to protect pedestrians from e-scooters, and for harsher punishments for e-scooter riders breaking the law.
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[@jameswalker199]

People don't realise that these things are essentially electric motorbikes, and probably about as heavy as well. You wouldn't ride a petrol powered motorcycle on the path, why would you ride an electric one on it? Just the same as how electric cars are still subject to the same laws as petrol cars, e-scooters should be too (which in theory they are, but I'm not aware of it being enforced). She was lucky she didn't hit her head and was killed. I've seen people trip over, hit their head, and die before now (we were on holiday and couldn't leave where we were staying until the police had gathered evidence) so if you can die from just tripping up and landing wrong, you can certainly be killed by a heavy e-scooter.

[@Diana-lk6gx]

Disgraceful behaviour. Imagine how much this could set back someone vulnerable. May this lady get well soon. Ban these e scooters on pavements.

[@t5jerry]

Electric scooters are legal in the UK, but only if you use them following the laws which detail how to use them. It is also legal to purchase an electric scooter in the UK. The main rule for the use of electric scooters is that if it is your own private scooter, you can only use the e-scooter ON PRIVATE LAND !!!!!

[@williamthompson4389]

The whole situation is totally out of hand. I am 80 years of age and live in Ratby. Leicester. I witness almost every night on my walk up to the local pub boys on e-scooters riding at high speed on either the road or pavement without lights at night. Fortunately I have so far only been knocked to the ground twice! It is also the same situation during the day in the city centre with several e-scooters being driven at high speed by young men in pedestrian areas. I, like so many others, have had some very near misses.

[@chrissysolorio3565]

"Only twice" is too many times.

[@NekoChan25692]

It’s not the scooter, it’s the rider

[@jellymulder]

e-scooters and electric bikes are an absolute menace

[@jameswalker199]

They are battery powered motorcycles to my mind. Even if it was a Vespa, you wouldn't ride a petrol powered moped on the path.

[@anidfan2]

67 ? She looks great for her age

[@rogerbarton1790]

My front door opens straight onto the pavement and delivery drivers use next door's dropped kerb to mount the pavement and drive along it with one wheel still in the road. It's got to the stage where I need to do my kerb drill just to leave my premises!

[@25stevent]

it's no different than a pushbike

[@TheAegisClaw]

Exactly. Could've been a 10 year old on a bicycle. You have to be aware of your surroundings. This is just tabloid style scaremongering.

[@Neil-qf6df]

Shirley should have looked before crossing the pathway....

[@JamesBiggins-xb4wo]

Yeah but e-scooter shouldn’t of been on pavement in 1st place

[@Neil-qf6df]

@@JamesBiggins-xb4wo You should always be aware of your surroundings....regardless

[@nothanks1239]

Nobody steps onto a path expecting to be hit by a speeding vehicle. Don't talk nonsense. This was absolutely not her fault.

[@Neil-qf6df]

@@nothanks1239 Nobody steps onto a path expecting to collide with another pedestrian either, always look before stepping out, it's just common sense. If she had been looking she would have avoided being hit, always expect the unexpected.

[@louisslater9125]

The presenters are clueless. E-scooters are currently illegal from pavements AND roads currently.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Ive been run down by a cyclist and a motorist. Former was sore for few days, the latter changed my life.

[@jamiemcglynn6600]

I got pulled to the ground by one in 2017 via the handlebar. Something that should NEVER been invented...

[@Pandabubba9]

There has to be rules like that about the sidewalk I hate to say it, but a lot of it is from situational awareness Be smart about what you’re doing and then there’s not gonna be a problem usually Same thing as why there’s not drinking at amusement parks because someone couldn’t handle the liquor or drank too much and fell off a high tower (etc.

[@tom4626]

There is - but the police don’t enforce

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[@theukeconomist6518]

And nothing happened to the rider, probably got a pat on the head and left without having to pay charges.

[@gavinsmith9564]

Mobility scooters too, lots of Pensioners driving dangerously on pavements way too fast.

[@JamesBiggins-xb4wo]

Shouldn’t ban them just cause some people don’t ride them properly should we ban electric bikes as well

[@robertharvey6030]

This is a good point, think this is what people miss. There are bad operators of every veichle, should we also ban cars? It needs better enforcement, I am an ebike rider with a complient 250w motor, the amount of 1000w plus ebikes that can go over 50mph wizzing around is crazy.

[@simonpearson5150]

So should bikes but the police don't do anything about either

[@arkatheistcc2353]

She did walk right out in front of them, still wrong but know your surrounding

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[@blueflame316]

Just ban them outright

[@superdylan803]

No they should add a e scooter/bike lane if you want to ban them you’ve never driven one

[@AlanowyShow]

@@superdylan803 where?>> the roads are narrow enough and cyclists dont use them

[@superdylan803]

@@AlanowyShow well people whine about them being on pavements and whine about them being on roads where they suppose to be?

[@MegaDarkhair]

always the old people its not a Childs world its dangerous

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[@xSMOKExEMxALLx]

We don't really have these issues in Canada because our sidewalks are simply wider & we have bike lanes too. Can't the UK government make sidewalks wider because that sidewalk looks like its not even wide enough for people to walk past each other without bushing up against one another! Its funny to read all the silly comments of ban ban ban just because of other peeps negligence! Glad I moved from that country decades ago because its still going backwards 40 years later! lol

[@JamesBiggins-xb4wo]

Some pavements wider in London some are narrow is annoying at times even when trying to past people walking

[@datboijay4657]

Pure British banter they would lose their minds visiting an American university everyone owns one 😹

[@xavr.x]

The police shouldn't ban them outright, I say minimum 13 year old+ use, illegal and immediate confiscation if ridden on the pavement. For under 16s, 20mph limit.

[@anton__84]

She didn’t look she was the one who came out of nowhere

[@tom4626]

Doesn’t matter it’s illegal to ride them on the pavements . Now theyre being modded - kids and adults are riding them at silly speeds

[@jefferynorris9423]

Waist of time can't get a comment though anyway.

[@craigbellamy7428]

It might be illegal but u should check where u r walking and also the rider should check

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