Warning: This article contains distressing content. This isn't a local story, but one that needs to serve as a cautionary tale for local people regarding the use of e-bikes and e-scooters. Scooter seized by Staffordshire Moorlands Police recently without consequences to the rider. May 2025 saw a Sunderland teenager, Billy Stokoe, 18, make a choice that would change the course not only of his own life but that of an entire family forever. Billy was known to ride his e-bike dan

With Christmas just around the corner, the Staffordshire Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP) has some important advice for anyone thinking about buying an e-scooter as a present. While it’s legal to buy and own an e-scooter, you can only legally ride a privately owned one on private land, with the landowner’s permission. This means it is against the law to ride, or to allow your child to ride, an e-scooter anywhere on the roads, pavements, cycle tracks and parks, or to scho