Collisions involving e-scooters have tripled in a year, government figures reveal.
The Department for Transport's annual road casualties report found there were 1,352 reported collisions involving e-scooters, dwarfing the 2020 figure of 460.
One involved a 14-year-old girl colliding with a van in March, while another involved 32-year-old Joshim Uddin, who was killed in a "hit and run" by a car in Tower Hamlets in July. Jack Cousens, head of roads policy for the AA, said: “As E-scooter trials continue across the country, crashes involving e-scooters rose by 193 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020.
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