‘Lethal’ e-scooters to be banned in Kent after elderly woman injured

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“I tended to favour the trial going on, but it was quite obvious now accidents could have been worse than they were.”

In 2020, 484 casualties were recorded in incidents involving e-scooters, with 20 percent being collisions with other road users.

In the first six months of 2021, 502 casualties were recorded in incidents involving e-scooters, two were fatalities and 17 percent of the casualties were pedestrians.

Numbers fell to just over 40 incidents a month in the COVID-19 lockdown from January to March then rose to nearly 120 per month in April, May, and June.

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