E-scooters are set to be banned from a county where they were being trialled.
The rental scheme was launched in Canterbury, Kent, in November 2020 and was due to last until 2024.
However, the scheme is being wound down within the next couple of months over safety concerns.
Councillor David Brazier said: โAs we were nearing the end of the trial, I decided to truncate it before someone was seriously hurt.โ
Sarah Carter, 80, was โseriously injuredโ after an e-scooter collided with her on a pavement in Station Road West.
The retired university librarian suffered a broken wrist, cracked jaw and cheekbones after the suspected hit-and-run crash.
She said: โAnother elderly person could have quite easily been even more seriously injured or even killed.โ
Mr Brazier told councillors at a cross-party committee e-scooter riders have been barrelling down roads not given the green light by the council.
โI tended to favour the trial going on, but it was quite obvious now accidents could have been worse than they were,โ he added.
In Canterbury, e-scooters can only be used in a select patch of the city that includes the city centre, the University of Kent and local hospitals.
But Mr Brazier said the area will be shrunk down to just a single approved route by November.
He said: โThe agreement reached by officers was the area of operation should immediately be limited to the corridor between the university and the city centre.โ
Canterburyโs pilot scheme was one of 30 trials across the UK by the Department of Transport to get people out of cars and make travel greener.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, transport officials twice extended the trial with local authorities being able to stretch it once more in November 2022.
All pilots will come to an end in May 2024 and the government will decide whether or not to approve e-scooters for use on public highways.
In 2021 there were 1,359 casualties in collisions involving e-scooters, compared to 484 in 2020, according to the Department of Transport.
Source: Metro.co.uk
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Why is it that the commissioner and directors of TfL along with the Mayors transport team, are actively involved in putting the public at risk by allowing this dangerous form of rental transport?
The use of e-scooters have actively been promoted by deputy Mayor for transport along with dock-less cycles which also have been accused of presenting problems to disabled people when left dangerously scattered around on pavements.
Private use of e-scooters on roads, pavements and parkland has been banned, but most of the time police turn a blind eye to the problem!
Westminster council have been actively removing these dock-less cycles and scooters (where they present a problem). They say the vehicles will be crushed if companies owning them refuse to pay the removal fee and pick up.
๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒโ๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ.
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