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Friday, 7 January 2022

There’s been a surge in accidents involving e-scooters on London’s roads.

There were as many reported incidents in the first half of last year as there were in the whole of 2020 with 258 collisions.

Only 38 incidents were recorded in 2019 according to Met Police data obtained by the Labour London Assembly policing and crime spokesman Unmesh Desai.

Three people were killed over the space of 12 months including 53 year old Anthony Mumford.

The shopkeeper came off his e-scooter while riding it along Heath Road in Twickenham in July. 

Transport for London has banned people from taking e-scooters on its network even if they are being carried, due to the devices causing a number of fires.