Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
But it costs money and you have to hope the guilty party has any assets to recover. So it’s usually a none starter.
You can’t sue a 12 year old with no pocket money.
Electric scooters.
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You can’t sue a 12 year old with no pocket money.
matticus
Guru
Do you know how many hit-n-runs are commited by car drivers in a typical day?
(and how many of those cause injury?)
In practice, a kid with an e-scooter probably has parents with cash, and/or house insurance. You'd be unlucky to suffer material damages where it was not possible to reclaim costs, and there will always be teenage vandals on the streets, even if we eradicate this new scourge.
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
You need eyes in the back of your head to stay safe - or to not ride a scooter like a twit in a public place?
One of the things I don't miss about pre-Corona working, is dodging the rush-hour pavement cyclists and scooter jockeys who seemed to think pedestrians are an obstacle course for them to test their high speed manouvering skills.
I find it pretty wild that people are using the same arguments here that are routinely used to demonise cyclists.
I don't doubt that some scooter riders are scrotes who act like they are a law unto themselves, but exactly the same accusation is levelled at cyclists, and I'm sure most of us are relatively sensible, and despite collective responsibility not actually existing, we all get tarred with the same brush nonetheless.
I don't doubt that some scooter riders are scrotes who act like they are a law unto themselves, but exactly the same accusation is levelled at cyclists, and I'm sure most of us are relatively sensible, and despite collective responsibility not actually existing, we all get tarred with the same brush nonetheless.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Yup, we all here routinely take to the streets with an instrument between our legs that has the potential to cause mayhem.
Paging @Fnaar
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
It does seem like they are like us
A few nutters and loads of well behaved people who never get noticed
but at the moment they are all illegal on public roads (including pavements etc)
and - more importantly - not regulated so $deity knows what speed some of them may be capable of
but someone weaving down the pedestrianised high street at high speed on an escooter is the same as someone doing a wheelie on a mountain bike in the same place - or even just pedalling along in the same way as the scooter
The main problem is that 'the people' will lump them in with us - especially people who ride ebikes - so any action taken has the potential to affect everyone on bikes and scooters whether legal or not
A few nutters and loads of well behaved people who never get noticed
but at the moment they are all illegal on public roads (including pavements etc)
and - more importantly - not regulated so $deity knows what speed some of them may be capable of
but someone weaving down the pedestrianised high street at high speed on an escooter is the same as someone doing a wheelie on a mountain bike in the same place - or even just pedalling along in the same way as the scooter
The main problem is that 'the people' will lump them in with us - especially people who ride ebikes - so any action taken has the potential to affect everyone on bikes and scooters whether legal or not
- Location
- London
Agree with you totally on how to ride in these situations. And use a bell,Unfashionable as they are in some quarters.
Don't suppose we know the circumstances of this incident.
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
Except that - discounting behaviour entirely - e-scooters are illegal in and of themselves, whereas bicycles are not.
matticus
Guru
What is also illegal:
driving at 70 on the wrong side of the road to avoid a speed camera. But funnily enough, if you hit a teenager on an e-scooter, guess who gets blamed?
View: https://twitter.com/Jo_Earlsfield/status/1417001215829889024?s=19
(sorry, I've posted this on both eScooter threads now)
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
Yes and also no. At present, unless they are part of one of the licenced hire trial scheme they are not legal to use outside of the owner's garden.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Did someone say cars on pavements
matticus
Guru
I'm sure they were moved there by teenage oiks. It is of course ILLEGAL to drive them onto/off the pavement, so that can't have happened ...
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Rockall, 10pm, 21st Nov.
Stephenite
Membå
- Location
- OslO
Or 8:30am taking my little girl to the kindergarten in Oslo.
