SCHOOL children in Fife are to be spoken to as part of efforts to raise awareness of the dangers of e-scooters.
The vehicles have been highlighted as both an antisocial behaviour and casualty risk and the Fife Community Safety Partnership plans to deliver a safety messages to secondary schools across the area.
The issue was discussed at Thursday’s meeting of Fife Council’s People and Communities Scrutiny Committee.
Councillor Lynda Holton, who is SNP councillor for Glenrothes West and Thornton, was keen to see action.
“Inappropriate use of e-scooters is probably an issue across all our communities that we represent,” she commented.
Reform UK councillor Julie MacDougall, who represents Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy, is hopeful children of all ages will be targeted.
She said: “Young people are whizzing around on one of these e-scooters. How much work is being done in primary schools?”
Service manager Joan Lamie (Housing Estates and Safer Communities) said work was ongoing with partners to try and tackle the issue.
“We are also getting into schools and trying to educate young people about these vehicles that are actually illegal but also the risk to their own health and wellbeing if they go around in balaclavas driving these vehicles in communities,” she said.
Safer Communities Manager Patricia Spacey added: “There is the danger when they are out on the road and also the dangers of charging them which is a clear issue so we will highlight that.
“We are trying all the time to make sure that we react to these new emerging issues and use existing mechanisms to get out to the wider audience.”
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