June 21st 2023.
Sami Burchell recently posted a heart-stopping dashcam video to Facebook featuring a near miss with a child riding a scooter in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The footage showed Sami driving around a corner when a young girl on a scooter suddenly appeared in front of her. Sami was forced to slam on the breaks, narrowly missing the child.
Sami wrote in her post that if she had been going faster, the outcome could have been very different. She urged parents to have a conversation with their children about riding scooters safely.
The video appears to show that the girl was attempting to overtake the van in front of her when she almost collided with Sami's car. The girl quickly hopped back on her scooter and took off before Sami could check for damage.
The incident is a reminder of the dangers of riding scooters, especially e-scooters. According to government figures, there were twelve e-scooter deaths in the year leading up to June 2022, three times higher than the same period the year before. The number of people seriously injured by or when using e-scooters in the same period also doubled from 228 to 429.
Sami's dashcam footage serves as an important reminder of the dangers of riding scooters, and the importance of speaking to children about riding safely.
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