Motorised/ Ride-on Leisure Equipment

It won’t happen Wedgy. Not on Club Sites. Scooters are seen as high risk by most providing services where general public are around. Dedicated skate/scooter parks, or off road tracks, under supervision is your answer. Unless I am mistaken, it’s illegal to even take one folded up on some public transport. 

We have dash cam footage of a teen who pulled onto a dual carriageway in front of us last week. He was weaving from lane to lane, ignored all the traffic lights, continuing round a big busy roundabout, last seen cutting across us, and into a pedestrianised area. My guess he was hitting around 25-30 miles per hour at some points. His destiny I fear is to be a statistic, and family telling the world what a lovely lad he was.

I am pleased to say that I am the proud owner of Bronze, Silver and Gold ASA Swimming awards earned long ago which I hope will keep me afloat even in these shark infested waters 🦈 🦈🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️👍

We witnessed one numpty travelling south down the M6 motorway on the hard shoulder whilst fiddling about with his mobile phone. This was between the M6 and M56 interchange and the turn off for Knutsford, so goodness knows where he joined it.

As Ttda alluded to, he's probably got flowers wrapped around a lamppost as a memorial nowadays.

Maybe concessions can be made for people with walking difficulties having witnessed a guy on a French campsite with a smaller camper van, couldn’t carry his mobility scooter and he had adapted his E scooter to carry his elbow crutches and he had a shopping basket on the front, he had a seat on it and he could get to the toilet block, swimming pool and to off site shops and he still had his independence and could enjoy his holidays.

I never expected unanimous support for my views however I really did hope for a modicum of empathy for the kids of today who although they have all the "advantages " of modern technology do no have the freedom that we enjoyed

Well apart from the fact that 'we' didn't have an e-scooters in the first place with our freedom back then I can't see how banning one particular 'toy' on site means they will not have the freedom that we enjoyed, and one toy that is banned from public roads anyway, (isn't a bike better?) so no I can't see any erosion in their freedoms. 

Secondly what about a modicum of empathy for the other site users and their safety? From personal experience and having spent my working life with them is that children, even the most super intelligent, are not 'wise', they can be foolish and make mistakes, easily distracted, and they also they think themselves impervious to dangers and indestructible. Nothing too much wrong with that, it's all part of growing up but given a toy that can achieve speeds of 15 mph on a densely populated campsite full of all ages and sizes it's a possible recipe for a serious injury and/or collision and an unnecessary risk. Safety comes first over personal freedoms.

Our young neighbours, relatively new to caravanning, have 2 boys, 8 and 10. They have bought them both electric scooters. Outside their house the boys ride the scooters sensibly, albeit without any protective clothing. But once round the corner, out of mum and dad's sight,  they let rip often letting one of their mates jump on with them. An accident waiting to happen given the number of delivery vans which turn up to our other neighbours (whose daughter runs a business from home). Heaven knows what would happen to the boys let loose on the restricted areas of a caravan site with (understandably?) minimal supervision from mum and dad. 

Well as Novak says " you can't win em all " 🏊‍♂️😀