Concerns have been raised about the use of electric motorcycles in South Tyneside, with police urging the public to report issues. Northumbria Police at the West Shields, Cleadon and East Boldon Community Area Forum (CAF) last week, said the use of the vehicles on public land was a “real issue” for police nationally.
The comments were made following community concerns about electric motorbikes reaching dangerous speeds and putting members of the public at risk. Councillor Ernest Gibson, Whiteleas ward representative, said the bikes had been referred to by a former ward colleague as “silent assassins” as “you don’t see them and only come upon them once they’re on top of you”.
Cllr Gibson told the CAF meeting: “People are going to the shops and then they’re knocking people off their feet and as you know, some of these bikes can do 50mph. People think they’re just ordinary electric pedalbikes but they’re not, they’re actually motorbikes.
