Act to keep death off pavements

ON THURSDAY afternoon I stepped out of a bookshop on Kensington High Street and was almost eradicated by a phalanx of four e-scooters speeding along the pavement, each bearing a fit young man.

I tried, for the sake of form, to point out that this was illegal. They just sneered and sped on. I reckon I very nearly ended up in hospital. There were of course no police to be seen (I did eventually come across one later, with a gun on his hip, heading back to sentry duty at some embassy). This is the future everywhere if Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is not persuaded to change his mind.

When it happens, everyone will ask ‘How did this happen?’ It will happen because you did not write to your MPs, now, in large numbers, saying these menaces should stay banned.