E Scooters soon to be allowed on UK roads?
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Seeing a lot of kids commuting into school via the pavements on e scooters, not sure why the schools are allowing this as if there's an accident then they will be complicit for allowing them to be used and stored on site.
There's a clip being shared on whatsapp of someone fleeing from the Police when they realised that their escooter was being confiscated today, they managed to get away.
Also today there's a high profile victim of an e-scooter hit and run https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5748...
There's a clip being shared on whatsapp of someone fleeing from the Police when they realised that their escooter was being confiscated today, they managed to get away.
Also today there's a high profile victim of an e-scooter hit and run https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5748...
untakenname said:
Seeing a lot of kids commuting into school via the pavements on e scooters, not sure why the schools are allowing this as if there's an accident then they will be complicit for allowing them to be used and stored on site.
There's a clip being shared on whatsapp of someone fleeing from the Police when they realised that their escooter was being confiscated today, they managed to get away.
Also today there's a high profile victim of an e-scooter hit and run https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5748...
The bit about school kids commuting on them does surprise me, as when I was at school, the school would pretty much dictate stuff we did outside school never mind inside school, especially with anything that carried a risk or could reflect badly on them.There's a clip being shared on whatsapp of someone fleeing from the Police when they realised that their escooter was being confiscated today, they managed to get away.
Also today there's a high profile victim of an e-scooter hit and run https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5748...
When I started driving to school in 6th form, the school wanted to see our driving licenses before we were allowed to drive ourselves to school and back. They had a car park for pupils, and we all had to leave our keys hanging up in a certain place when we arrived so that the school had ‘control’ over when we used our cars and made sure we weren’t messing around with them, or driving off the school grounds during the school day.
Before pupils could be carried as passengers in the cars of other pupils, their parents had to give permission, and so on.
Surely these kids must be storing their e-scooters off the school grounds? The schools can’t possibly be allowing them to ride them onto the property and store them? That is quite literally enabling the students to commit an offence.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 16th June 09:27
Lord Marylebone said:
When I started driving to school in 6th form, the school wanted to see our driving licenses before we were allowed to drive ourselves to school and back. They had a car park for pupils, and we all had to leave our keys hanging up in a certain place when we arrived so that the school had ‘control’ over when we used our cars and made sure we weren’t messing around with them, or driving off the school grounds during the school day.
Back in the days when you wouldn't get a parent charging in to school and threatening to assault a teacher for telling their child to put their phone awayuntakenname said:
Also today there's a high profile victim of an e-scooter hit and run https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5748...
Was it? I haven't read anywhere that it was an e-scooter. It just says scooter in all the news I've read. Could have be a petrol scooter, or less likely an push-powered scooter. Or much less likely, a German techno DJ called Scooter.jakesmith said:
Lord Marylebone said:
When I started driving to school in 6th form, the school wanted to see our driving licenses before we were allowed to drive ourselves to school and back. They had a car park for pupils, and we all had to leave our keys hanging up in a certain place when we arrived so that the school had ‘control’ over when we used our cars and made sure we weren’t messing around with them, or driving off the school grounds during the school day.
Back in the days when you wouldn't get a parent charging in to school and threatening to assault a teacher for telling their child to put their phone awayIf the school asked the parents to attend a ‘discussion’ between them and the pupil, then you knew you were in really deep s
t if that happened to you!The two worst punishments at my school were ‘asked to leave’ or simply expelled. If you were asked to leave, the school usually gave you until the end of that term to find a new school, to save the blemish of expelled being applied to you.
I left school in 1999, so it isn’t like we are talking about a million years ago either.
lost in espace said:
My daughter's college in St Albans have banned them from their grounds. Must have been a convincing threat I used to see a lot of them, now gone.
I imagine if they aren’t allowed to ride/park them on college grounds, then that’s the end of them, as they can’t leave them chained up somewhere outside the grounds because they wouldn’t last a day without being pinched.That isn’t a slur on St Albans either, it’s just a general observation regarding most places of a reasonable size.
okgo said:
lost in espace said:
My daughter's college in St Albans have banned them from their grounds. Must have been a convincing threat I used to see a lot of them, now gone.
They don't want to be sued for someone grazing their knee. I’m a supporter of e-scooters, but I can totally see why a college would ban students from using them as transport while they remain illegal.
okgo said:
Yes of course, it will be an insurance thing. Not because they give a st.
Absolutely. t.They won’t give a toss, but have to be seen to be doing the ‘right thing’, whatever that is.
When I first went to Uni, all us freshers were gathered in a hall in various batches, and given a lecture on all the stuff we weren’t allowed to do on campus, and what was illegal, and how we could end up dead if we messed about with drugs and stuff.
They clearly didn’t care, but felt like they had to tell us anyway.
Lord Marylebone said:
Absolutely.
They won’t give a toss, but have to be seen to be doing the ‘right thing’, whatever that is.
When I first went to Uni, all us freshers were gathered in a hall in various batches, and given a lecture on all the stuff we weren’t allowed to do on campus, and what was illegal, and how we could end up dead if we messed about with drugs and stuff.
They clearly didn’t care, but felt like they had to tell us anyway.
Of course they care, they won't get your money if you are dead.They won’t give a toss, but have to be seen to be doing the ‘right thing’, whatever that is.
When I first went to Uni, all us freshers were gathered in a hall in various batches, and given a lecture on all the stuff we weren’t allowed to do on campus, and what was illegal, and how we could end up dead if we messed about with drugs and stuff.
They clearly didn’t care, but felt like they had to tell us anyway.
Toltec said:
Lord Marylebone said:
Absolutely.
They won’t give a toss, but have to be seen to be doing the ‘right thing’, whatever that is.
When I first went to Uni, all us freshers were gathered in a hall in various batches, and given a lecture on all the stuff we weren’t allowed to do on campus, and what was illegal, and how we could end up dead if we messed about with drugs and stuff.
They clearly didn’t care, but felt like they had to tell us anyway.
Of course they care, they won't get your money if you are dead.They won’t give a toss, but have to be seen to be doing the ‘right thing’, whatever that is.
When I first went to Uni, all us freshers were gathered in a hall in various batches, and given a lecture on all the stuff we weren’t allowed to do on campus, and what was illegal, and how we could end up dead if we messed about with drugs and stuff.
They clearly didn’t care, but felt like they had to tell us anyway.
I went to Oslo 2 years ago and they were everywhere but only on pavements as I could tell.
No problem at all, probably because they don’t have the British arrogance that only they matter and everyone else can f*** themselves.
They uniformly gave way to pedestrians and everyone got along fine.
No problem at all, probably because they don’t have the British arrogance that only they matter and everyone else can f*** themselves.
They uniformly gave way to pedestrians and everyone got along fine.
Fishlegs said:
untakenname said:
Also today there's a high profile victim of an e-scooter hit and run https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5748...
Was it? I haven't read anywhere that it was an e-scooter. It just says scooter in all the news I've read. Could have be a petrol scooter, or less likely an push-powered scooter. Or much less likely, a German techno DJ called Scooter.https://www.aol.co.uk/entertainment/lisa-banes-gon...
Yeah, I assumed it was an e-scooter as if it was a normal one they would call it a motorbike.
Looks like the Police are now taking it seriously by crushing them and not handing them back to the owner once the fines been paid, wonder if the WEEE directive for e-waste applies to seized items?
Looks like the Police are now taking it seriously by crushing them and not handing them back to the owner once the fines been paid, wonder if the WEEE directive for e-waste applies to seized items?
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