E-scooters ought to be illegal – the people who use them don’t care!

IAM fed up of seeing hire e-scooters and totally illegal e-scooters on pavements. am disabled and use a mobility buggy and have done for 15 years. Mine is taxed and fully insured with a £2 million pound public liability.

The other day I approached an e-scooter user on the corner of Brook Road and Tenniscourt Road near the Chase School. It was being used by a teenage girl.

I informed her that her e-scooters were illegal on roads and pavements. To my amazement she said she knew that.

I informed her that police were likely to confiscate it if they stopped her. They have confiscated something like 250 in Bristol.

To my surprise she told me that she had been stopped three times by the police. I asked her why she was still using it and didn’t she take any notice? She said no, she didn’t. What hope have we got?

Just a minute or so later on my way home nearby a police van was parked up a side street. I stopped and told the policewoman what I had witnessed and the fact I had seen another chap on the pavement on Tenniscourt Road on a scooter.

She told me they would catch up with him and informed me that this coming week a day is being spent stopping e-scooter users.

I told her also that it was school leaving time that afternoon and the parking by parents was diabolical. That very afternoon I was forced off the pavement by a car blocking the path.

They don’t care where they park, and they don’t have any consideration for mothers with pushchairs etc.

E-scooters should be banned completely.

Peter Williams Kingswood