Some Good News To Start The Day.

[Diasi]

Much better than the usual doom & gloom.

https://tinyurl.com/ayd5bebd

[Michael Rolls]

I really don't understand this. Is an 'E-bike' a motorcycle with an electric motor rather than IC? If so, what was a 15 year old doing riding it? You have to be 16 or over. No question of him being chased - the police vehicle was stopped by bollards p and how do you hit a stationary ambulnce in broad daylight unless you are totally uanbale to control the machine?

[Diasi]

I really don't understand this. Is an 'E-bike' a motorcycle with an electric motor rather than IC? If so, what was a 15 year old doing riding it? You have to be 16 or over. No question of him being chased - the police vehicle was stopped by bollards p and how do you hit a stationary ambulnce in broad daylight unless you are totally uanbale to control the machine?

Yes, show me a 15-yr-old on an E-bike & I'll show you a waste-of-space scrote who's better off dead than someone else being dead or maimed.

[klondike]

Pedal assisted e-bikes are legal. The one the other pair were riding was more of a electric motorcycle. They fall outside the regulation limits for e-bikes and are illegal to use on public roads.

Take a look at the fast food delivery boys in any town and you'll see they are just about all on electric motorcycles rather than legal e-bikes (obvious as there is no pedalling going on). Our police are too overstretched stopping Just Stop Oil protesters from being assaulted or pursuing incidents of misgendering on Twitter to bother with stuff like illegal e-bikes, e-scooters, illegal immigrants growing cannabis etc. etc.

[Michael Rolls]

that's why I was wondering just what the 'bike' actually was

[klondike]

Lots to choose from. Without any picture of the one involved it's impossible to say. Here's a selection of possibles. Some here could be legal but most won't be.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=off+road+electric+bike&crid=21H3U2P5N3IW8&sprefix=Off+%2Caps%2C143&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_4

[Michael Rolls]

yes - most of those are pedal/electric. We see some of those around here - a friend has one., great help to retired legs!
This shows electric 'motorbikes'
https://urbanebikes.com/collections/electric-motorbikes

one of them - I only looked at a couple - costs over £20k and has a top speed of 124mph! Another, much cheaper, caims a top speed of 28mph

[Diasi]

Any of them can do plenty of damage to a pedestrian.

[Michael Rolls]

of course

[klondike]

And riders or so it seems....

[Michael Rolls]

from the state of the ambulance windscreen, it looked as thought the boy hit the front of the ambulance and was thoun off into the 'screen - how can one achieve that against a stationary object?

[JBR]

from the state of the ambulance windscreen, it looked as thought the boy hit the front of the ambulance and was thoun off into the 'screen - how can one achieve that against a stationary object?

I haven't the information to enable me to assign blame to one or the other, but I'd bet that the ambulance was where it was meant to be and the young kid wasn't.

It's all part of growing up.  It's just that it's easier today to kill yourself than in the past.  Still, if he got some excitement out of doing it, that's fine.

[Diasi]

from the state of the ambulance windscreen, it looked as thought the boy hit the front of the ambulance and was thoun off into the 'screen - how can one achieve that against a stationary object

The ambulance was travelling, the waste-of-space scrote rode through some bollards, shot down the side street at high speed & straight out onto the main road, into the path of the oncoming ambulance.

I doubt it was an E-bike by the speed it went past the CCTV camera in the video clip, it looked over 30mph.

[Michael Rolls]

I thought the report said the ambulance was stationary?

[Diasi]

I thought the report said the ambulance was stationary?

ITV News reported it as 'into the path of an oncoming ambulance'.