{"id":14050,"date":"2022-11-11T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:30:46","slug":"further-funding-to-assess-e-scooter-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/further-funding-to-assess-e-scooter-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Further funding to assess e-scooter safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk\/what-we-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Road Safety Trust<\/a> has provided funding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety<\/a> (PACTS) to assess private e-scooter safety and understand casualty data in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The project will investigate the extent of under-reporting of e-scooter casualties and ways in which it could be improved, consider the DfT evaluation report of the e-scooter trial rental schemes and respond to the Government\u2019s proposed Transport Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The funding for the new project follows on from a grant in 2020 for work to investigate the safety of private e-scooters and provided recommendations to address safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE-scooters have appeared in large numbers on UK roads in the past two to three years,\u201d said PACTS Executive Director David Davies. \u201cMost are being used illegally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a dearth of information on safety, which PACTS tried to fill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring 2021 we published monthly updates on casualties involving e-scooters. PACTS research was helpful to the police and Department for Transport which eventually recorded 1,438 casualties, including 10 deaths. PACTS recorded 13 deaths in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government has announced that it will prioritise e-scooter legalisation. We believe there is still much more to contribute to the safety of e-scooter regulation, and to the wider issue of casualty reporting for vulnerable road users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Road Safety Trust said the additional funding aimed to help inform Government legislation and ensure that both the riders of e-scooters and those around them remain safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Safety Trust has provided funding to The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) to assess private e-scooter safety and understand casualty data in the UK. The project will investigate the extent of under-reporting of e-scooter casualties and ways in which it could be improved, consider the DfT evaluation report of the e-scooter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}