Sample post on a demo account — illustrative only, not legal advice.

Electric scooters fall into a gap our rules were not written for. A rider can be a pedestrian one second and a forty-kilometre-per-hour vehicle the next, on a device they rented for the length of one trip.

More than one party may be responsible

Depending on what went wrong, responsibility can sit with the rider, another driver, the company that maintains the fleet, or the city that designed the road. A brake that fails is a very different case from a rider who ran a light.

If you are hurt — whether riding or just walking nearby — preserve the scooter’s ID number, the ride receipt, and the scene. Those details decide which doors are open to you. (Sample post; the analysis is for illustration.)