An e-scooter rider was stopped by amazed police who found him riding down the M5 near Bristol.
Police said the man had told them he was just following his sat-nav on his first day at a new job - and it told him to head southbound on the M5 between junction 17 for Cribbs Causeway and junction 18 for Avonmouth, so he did.
Not only was the e-scooter he was riding illegal anyway - it was privately owned and not part of the legal Voi e-scooter pilot scheme - but the rider didn't have a driving licence anyway.
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Avon and Somerset police's road policing unit tweeted out their amazement at the discovery. "The rider of this e-scooter obviously didn’t have insurance but also didn’t have a licence as it had been refused on medical grounds!" they said.
"Then decided to follow his Satnav to take him to work on his very first day down the hard shoulder of the M5 from Cribbs Causeway to Avonmouth!" they added.
Riding an e-scooter anywhere in public is illegal - either on the road, pavement or cycle path - as the machines are not road legal and it's impossible to get insurance for them. Only the legitimate hire scooters, run in Bristol and Bath by Swedish firm Voi as part of a two-year Government pilot scheme to assess their safety, are legal - and they have geo-location devices which, in theory, should stop riders from getting onto a motorway.
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