Are the dangers of e-scooters too high a price to pay?
My thumb gently presses the handlebar throttle and the electric scooter I am wobbling on suddenly takes me on a high-speed slalom. Weaving around pedestrians on a crowded high street, I ignore cries to slow down as well as a few chosen obscenities. My adrenaline is pumping – I am engrossed in an exciting new game where humans have become skittles not to be knocked down. Welcome to the world of e-scooters, the latest travel craze to hit Great Britain. I am motoring along at 15.5 miles per hour, the maximum speed permitted for the country's army of 10,000 e-scooter addicts currently men...
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