Rejected petition Make Self balancing Scooters legal to use on public land.

We would like self balancing scooters such as the "Swegway" legal to use on public land such as pavements And to have section 72 of the Highway Code changed to stop police being able to fine self balancing scooter riders.

More details

The CPS released a statement saying that self balancing scooters were illegal to use if not on private land due to section 72 of the Highway Code.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/110236

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 12 October 2015
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.