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E-Scooters - Know the law


E-scooters are classified as Personal Light Electric Vehicles, so they are treated as motor vehicles and subjected to the same legal requirements, such as; MOT, Licensing, Tax and insurance.

 

If stopped on a public road, pavement or cycle path - The scooter will be seized as part of a force wide crackdown under section 165A of the Road Traffic Act 1988.  This means the scooter will be destroyed in lien with force policy.

 


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James Colledge
(Police, Heanor and Langley Mill SNT, Amber Valley)

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