A woman has been charged with drink driving after being caught riding an e-scooter whilst under the influence.
Officers were out and about in Newport Town Centre last night (Saturday) when they discovered an individual riding one of the Beryl e-scooters in a questionable manner on Pyle Street.
A roadside breath test was carried out which led to the rider being arrested on suspicion of drink driving.
The individual has since been charged with the offence and will appear at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court in due course.
Police say that the use of e-scooters whilst intoxicated will not be tolerated and have issued a reminder to all Islanders that the electric scooters are covered by the Road Traffic Act and therefore the rules of the road apply at all times.
Beryl e-Scooters are currently being trialed in Newport with government approval. The trial will be expanding to Ryde and Cowes in the next few weeks with over 100 scooters expected to be operational on the Island.
Under UK law, it is currently illegal to ride a personal e-scooter on the roads (and pavements). However, it is permitted if hiring an e-scooter as part of an official trial.
UPDATE – 20-year-old Kyah Jordan, of Herbert Road in New Milton, has been charged and will appear before Magistrates next month.
Now thats how to deal with them! the same should apply to some of the mobility scooters that are being used as an excuse not to walk because some of these are being driven about by people intoxicated!
Your last statement is incorrect. Most mobility scooters need their scooters to get the about, shopping and independence. Most mobility scooters are teetotaller mainly because of the medication they need to take.
Driving ban should follow make an example of her
It will be a ban for 1 yr min and a fine. If the person also drives a car, they won’t be driving that either.
So much for doctors, nurses and surgeons using them to go from Newport to the Hospital, when they could go in a heated car, in this foul weather.
Melt them down, and make cars out of them. This country and it’s imbalanced population is NOT the place for such gimmicks.
Fine in warm, dry countries where the Police deal out the punishments, not in a country where lunatics have more rights than those they harm or those who dare arrest them.
SEE it how it ‘is’, NOT how you just wish it to be.
Who said it was an NHS member of staff ?
In an original report it was being introduced with a 15 trial for NHS staff so I would imagine that’s where Joe has got confused. Let’s face it though, we have too many idiots around these days for anything to be used responsibly!
These scooter were ‘sold’ to the public on the ‘idea’ that NHS staff, amongst others, would use them, to travel to work at the Hospital etc.
I never intended it to read as if it were NHS staff drunkenly riding such.
I am saying that most NHS staff would prefer to use a warm, dry, safe car, whereby they can carry items for their work, change of clothing etc, in a car, rather than be blown up the dual carriageway, arriving wet, if at all, when their car is parked in their drive, still costing tax, insurance, mot, depreciation etc, just to save a spoonful of CO2 in a planet where human number grow ever larger making ‘spoon full’ savings less than a drop in the universe, let alone the ocean.
Even more galling when the majority who care little then cruise by them, in huge gas guzzling 4×4’s, with these ‘nice but gullible’ just providing more space on the road for them to go even faster.
As many realise the impracticalness of such gimmicks in a dark, wet, windy, narrow yet busy roadways, it will be mostly the wrong sort who will ‘use’ such and create more work in the NHS, from accidents, for those it was originally targeted towards.
See it how it ‘is’ not how you wish it to be
More cars, yes that’s the answer.
So JJH, YOU will give up a car and use one? Thought NOT, so long as others do, so you can still be cossetted in comfort and safety, to hell with the rest of people.
STOP importing more people here IS the ANSWER
I gave up my car years ago. Your agenda is so tedious, how many aliases do you have on here?
He (or she) has at least a dozen by my reckoning, all spouting the same bigoted agenda.
Especially Range Rover SVR’s.
They sound really good.
These bikes are dangerous bits of kit have no place on roads or pavements. Stop this stupid trial now and get them off the island before someone is seriously hurt.
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Sounds to me like the police don’t want them here, perhaps beryl bikes instead like Bournemouth.
Where does it say that? Got a link?
A further thought, should check mobility buggies CV also.
Is anyone surprised?
Last paragraph misleading, it’s not legal to use them on pavements even if they’re hired.
Also it would be worth hammering the point that the rider must hold a current driving licence,or a provisional one
They are everywhere cluttering up pavements – waste of time should have done the trials in city centres
I suggest that it is not possible to ride an e-scooter in anything other than a questionable manner in a public place; They are too slow and unstable to be allowed on the highway and too fast and unstable to be allowed on the footway.