E-scooter rider dies following collision with car

Again what difference does it make what they were riding? If a kid on a bicycle flattened a grand mother nobody would be calling for the banning of bicycles but again, another rant from a simple mind! Scooter hits someone, answer, ban the scooter not punish the fool riding it carelessly. It’s that kind of mentality that creates the nanny state we live in and the reason we will never become a society that adopts other forms of transport and rely on cars for everything. Oh sure, one day we might get light rail, probably 10 years from now. Meanwhile Europe have had scooter hire schemes for years while we can’t even trial the scheme in NSW because the transport minister couldn’t be bothered. Australia. The so called progressive nation stuck in the stone ages.

No. NOT another rant from a simple mind. That is the point. We NEVER punish the idiots riding these carelessly. Christ we don’t even punish chronic drink drivers. But no, let’s not ban anything. Wouldn’t want a nanny state. Would much rather the idiots continue inflicting these antics on us all, so we can be seen as progressive. Give me a break.

They must be French.

They already are regulated! But if you cross a road without looking both ways in front of oncoming 80km/h traffic with no helmet it doesn’t matter if you’re on a scooter, bicycle, skateboard or on foot you’re going to have a very bad day! Yes it’s tragic and avoidable but I’m so sick of hearing everytime someone has an accidental on an e-scooter it’s the e-scooters fault and nothing to do with the circumstances. Yes if you ride a hire scooter drunk you’ll probably hurt yourself as you would a bike or anything with wheels. I don’t hear the calls to ban bicycles every time someone hurts themselves on one and we’ve been riding them for a very very long time with a lot more accidents.

Do you hate bicycles too because people die and fall on those every day but I never hear a word of protest as they do on motorbike and cars but let’s not ban any of those, they’re useful as are taxis…….as are scooters for commuting and making short trips at no cost than an almost zero hike in your power bill to charge one up

It’s even cheaper if the electricity used is fossil fuel generated!