No mode of transport is risk-free, including electric scooters. The use of e-scooters in public is already permitted in many European countries. Proponents say they will ease pressure on public transport amid the coronavirus crisis, as well as cut carbon emissions and air pollution. Middlesbrough has just become the first place in the UK to trial e-scooters.
Nevertheless, the Mineral Products Association – the trade body representing the companies whose HGVs pound our roads, regularly harming even killing pedestrians and cyclists – has already reached a decision, and has called for e-scooters to be banned:
The MPA and its members have worked hard over the years promoting shared road safety and we believe that introducing new, more dangerous types of vehicle is neither safe nor sensible.
Legalizing e-scooters could pose a threat to road safety, MPA warns. Responding to the Government's consultation on the 'Future of Mobility' with a strong call for e-scooters to be banned from shared roads, not legalized. https://t.co/kSlkcuOKW6— Mineral Products Association (@MineralProduct) July 15, 2020
The MPA might remember the old adage:
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stonesBecause HGVs kill. Minerals industry HGVs kill. Aggregate Industries’ HGVs kill.
Today's @EveningStandard splash: https://t.co/0jL6ViLWGS— Ross Lydall (@RossLydall) July 5, 2019
Still no response from @AggregateUK. Here's a photo of their truck crushing someone on a bicycle this morning. pic.twitter.com/OxhgosvJlb— Lambeth Cycling (@LambethCycling) November 12, 2015
As we posted, some of Aggregate Industries' drivers clearly have an issue with road safety laws.
Hi @AggregateUK - here’s your driver tapping away on his iPad, creeping over the Advance Stop Line. WU18FLC . This how HGVs kill people. @MetCycleCops pic.twitter.com/kZpUQ3UuQ1— RossiBike (@RossiTheBossi) March 4, 2019
@AggregateUK please have a word with your driver no hands on the wheel whilst texting on motorway. M25 near junction 11 #roadsafety pic.twitter.com/ESZtNa2pcW— Liz Ismail (@smilelizzy) July 28, 2018
On the basis that HGVs are dangerous should they also be banned?
