A road safety charity is calling for the Government to drive down injuries on UK roads caused by e-scooters.<\/p>\n
The plea comes from IAM RoadSmart<\/a> after the Department for Transport\u2019s (DfT) latest findings in \u2018Reported Road casualties Great Britain, annual report: 2020\u2019<\/a> revealed there were 484 casualties involving e-scooters, of which one person was killed, 128 were seriously injured and 355 slightly injured.<\/p>\n E-scooter firms were given the green light to start trials on UK streets in July 2020, sparking a surge in e-scooter usage. This decision was made in light of COVID-19 and social distancing regulations, which meant people needed to get around without resorting to buses and trains.<\/p>\n However, the results of the pilot schemes have been delayed meaning a full review of the status of this new form of transport is yet to be established.<\/p>\n \u201cBy delaying yet again the results of the pilot schemes we have another Christmas looming where people will be buying and using a totally unregulated form of transport in the UK,\u201d said Neil Greig, Director of Policy and Research at IAM RoadSmart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A road safety charity is calling for the Government to drive down injuries on UK roads caused by e-scooters. The plea comes from IAM RoadSmart after the Department for Transport\u2019s (DfT) latest findings in \u2018Reported Road casualties Great Britain, annual report: 2020\u2019 revealed there were 484 casualties involving e-scooters, of which one person was killed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}