A police and crime commissioner for Kent has called for illegal e-scooters to be “seized and crushed,” following the end of a rental trial in Canterbury.
E-scooters can only be used on roads in England if they are part of a trial rental scheme. It is illegal to use privately-owned e-scooters or other powered transporters on public roads.
The Canterbury trial scheme, launched in 2020, finished at the end of 2022.
Kent Police chief Matthew Scott told a police and crime panel that e-scooters are “not road safe, not road legal, and should not be on our roads.”
Mr. Scott, who wants to avoid a “summer blighted by anti-social vehicles,” urged officers to “seize and crush” illegal e-scooters….