A grandmother was left with a broken wrist, a cracked jaw and cheekbone after she was knocked to the ground by an e-scooter in a suspected hit-and-run. Sarah Carter was smashed into by a rider as she walked along the pavement and sent flying by the impact.
The 80-year-old was going to a shop near her home in Canterbury, Kent, when the accident happened on July 1. She said she was crashed into by a young man riding a Bird rented e-scooter and is now calling for the city-wide trial scheme to end before a pedestrian or rider is killed.
Witnesses said an e-scooter rider came flying out of the entrance to flats that sit above a nearby Sainsbury's store. Retired university librarian Ms Carter is now at home recovering from her injuries following the incident near Canterbury West station.
