This is the shocking moment an e-scooter driver nearly collides with a wheelchair user after missing a vital warning sign from a cyclist.
Video footage filmed this afternoon in Wandsworth, south London, shows a cyclist sticking out his hands and pointing downwards to indicate to the scooter rider behind him to slow down or stop.
Yet the brazen e-scooter driver ignores the signal, undertaking the cyclist on the single-lane road, unaware of a wheelchair user emerging from a junction.
Seemingly distracted or confused by the cyclist’s widely-known hand signal, the scooter rider, wearing dark glasses and a black helmet, looks at the biker before continuing to speed off down the road.
The scooter rider looks back as the cyclist as he almost collides with the woman sat in an electric wheelchair, who screams in shock.
The cyclist shouts out ‘mate, that means stop sign,’ pointing his arm down again to show the scooter rider, ‘this means stop,’ he added.
The scooter rider then pulls over, as the woman continues to safely cross the road.
The cyclist then approaches the scooter rider, and one of his friends also on an e-scooter, telling him: ‘You cannot ride e-scooters in London, they are forbidden unless they are rentals. You cannot use those, they will take them.’
Only e-scooters from official rental companies can be used legally on public roads and cycle lines.
Riders must have a provisional or full driving licence and the rental company must provide insurance.
Users do not need to wear a helmet but are encouraged to and it is against the law to drive privately owned e-scooters on public roads although they can be used on private property.
Campaigners have been calling for a ban on illegally ridden e-scooters after data revealed more than half of all casualties on the two-wheeled vehicles were caused in incidents where they were used illicitly.
A total of 1,111 e-scooters were confiscated across 20 police forces last year after a spate of illegal behaviour by people using the devices.
And the overall figure is likely to be much higher as the remaining 23 constabularies in the UK did not reveal statistics on the seizures.