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Segway users protest against ban
22 March 2010
Users of the two-wheeled electric Segway vehicle have demonstrated against a Government ban preventing their use on UK roads and pavements.
UK and European rules have barred the self-balancing Segway but the Government said it is now reconsidering the legal status of all personal electric vehicles.
George Bush, the former president of the US, is known to have fallen off one, and former UK prime minister Tony Blair was given a Segway by the King of Jordan.
Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik supported the protest in Westminster. He said: "The claim that Segways are illegal beggars belief. As far as I can see, there isn't a scrap of evidence for this in British law.
"However it seems the Government in general, and Transport Secretary Lord Adonis in particular, are taking a sensible approach. If their consultation is effective, it will give the authorities a way to accept the common sense case to allow use of Segways on the same terms as electric bicycles."
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