A local woman’s calling on Carlow’s councillors to do something to regulate e-scooter use.
Gemma Flood, who suffered a fall when struck by cyclists as she stepped onto a path on the Staplestown Road in 2019, says another woman was injured over the weekend on the same stretch, this time by somebody on an electric scooter.
It’s understood she had to be taken to hospital.
Gemma says with the rise in popularity of the mobility piece, so too is there an increase with issues, telling KCLR News”It’s just getting worse and something seriously is going to have to be done, I even notice it myself now in increasing numbers there’s two-to-one scooters and they’ve no sense of safety, of fear or anything like that, I don’t know what’s going to have to be done to solve it”.
She adds “I’m calling for some action on this for the councillors to wake up and see that it is a very serious problem and that it’s not getting any better, there’s double the amount on the footpaths now and the absolute speed they go at”.
