Wheeled away Police seize e-bikes and e-scooters in city crackdown

POLICE operation to stop and seize illegal e-bikes and e-scooters in the centre of Bristol over the weekend netted a total of eight e-scooters and two e-bikes in just a short period of time.

- Tristan CORK

Police in the city centre said they seized the vehicles and gave ‘appropriate words of advice’ to the people who were not arrested or cautioned, but had to continue their journeys on foot.

Officers from Bridewell Police Station in the city centre gathered at Turbo Island on Stokes Croft as part of an ongoing operation to target e-bikes and e-scooters.

People were stopped whether they were riding up Stokes Croft - the main A38 road north out of the city centre - on the road or the pavement.

Any rider on a privately-owned e-scooter was stopped, and e-bike riders were stopped and had their bikes seized if they failed to meet the legal requirements.