Think twice before buying an e-scooter for someone this Christmas
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If you’re thinking of getting someone an e-scooter for Christmas, then please read on!
Our officers will be carrying out operations in the new year where e-scooters being ridden illegally will be seized and crushed.
PC Jonny Walker, from Nuneaton and Bedworth Safer Neighbourhood Team, said: “As well as being illegal, riding an e-scooter is also dangerous both to the person riding it and members of the public.
“When we talk to our communities, they describe e-scooters as a blight on the streets. In the new year we’ll be running operations targeting e-scooters being ridden illegally and we won’t hesitate to seize them.”
There are only limited circumstances in which they can be ridden legally.
It is not possible to get insurance for privately owned e-scooters which means it is illegal to use them on the road as well as in other public spaces such as parks, pavements and shopping centres.
E-scooters can only be used on private land, but you need to get the permission of the landowner.