EUC rider injures pensioner in the Uk

[Natfink]

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/elderly-woman-seriously-injured-after-2880229

Not good...

[null]

To put this in perspective, cars are responsible for about 5000 death every day worldwide. Also, 90+ year old can be injured by pretty much anything, including a running toddler.

This is obviously sad for the injured and the rider, but it’s also typically the kind of incident that will be totally blown out of proportion because people like to work themselves up against new things.

edit: Let’s take this as a reminder to be careful with pedestrians though.

[Natfink]

Exactly the problem. We all know that the majority ride sensibly and accidents happen but articles like this are very damaging to public perceptions of such devices. A real shame it's happened. The last bit of the article does show a bit of common sense though as the police commented that although such devices are technically against the law they will use their discretion rather than blanket bans.

[Planemo]

A great shame. Wont be the last either. A few more and I can imagine that EUC's will become more widespread to the public knowledge, just like Segways did. And we all know where that ended - every man and his dog knows that they shouldnt be used anywhere in the UK. At the moment I feel we get grace on euc's as most peeps have no idea what they are or what the law is, and respond favourably as a result. Once wheels have risen to the dizzy heights of 'one wheeled killing machines' the public wont be so accomodating. I forsee getting shouted at by oap's and women with kids when we get to that stage. Not to mention the police being more pro-active. All very sad really.

Maybe we should keep the forum viewable to members only, and boycott the amount of wheels allowed to be sold in the uk so we can keep it all a bit hush hush lol