Police are investigating after a female e-scooter rider was caught on CCTV crashing into a gran on the pavement - leaving her badly injured.<br /><br />Video footage captures the woman, believed to be in her 30s, smashing into 67-year-old Shirley Smith and knocking her to the ground. <br /><br />The pensioner was left with severe bruising all over her body and says she is still seeking medical treatment for back pain since being flattened on April 9.<br /><br />Northamptonshire Police said they were investigating the collision but nobody has yet been arrested. <br /><br />Mrs Smith had been walking off her driveway towards a friend's car when she was ploughed into by the woman riding a Voi rental e-scooter.<br /><br />CCTV shows the gran-of-two being sent sprawling to the floor along Windmill Avenue in Kettering, Northants., before getting up and remonstrating with the rider.<br /><br />According to Mrs Smith, the woman then blamed her for the accident and demanded to know why she 'didn't look where she was going' before speeding away.<br /><br />Mrs Smith and her husband Mike are now calling for harsher punishments for e-scooter riders breaking the law. <br /><br />She said: ""I was lucky the car was there otherwise I could have rolled onto the road.<br /><br />"I sort of saw a flash and then it was too late. I was walking to the car, but I didn’t turn right or left when I got to the pavement.<br /><br />“She turned around and asked why I wasn’t looking where I was going.<br /><br />"She never asked me once if I was ok, never offered to help me up. Didn’t ask if I was fine. She just blamed me. She was very aggressive. <br /><br />“I did say what are you doing on the path, she said she couldn’t go on the road. <br /><br />“I came back in the house to get the old man. I was very shocked. Angry actually. She didn’t acknowledge it. She didn’t help me.”<br /><br />Mrs Smith has been left with severe bruising along her legs and arms and says her back still hurts after the accident. <br /><br />She added: "I couldn’t turn my neck for a couple of days. My back is hurting now. The biggest bruise is on my arm, but there’s one down to my foot. <br /><br />“I’m still angry now. I’ve suffered pain and I can live with that but I’m so angry that people ride these scooters on the pavement and think they have the right to do it. <br /><br />"It’s wrong. Her attitude really did stink. She accused me of not looking but she was the one riding illegally on the pavement.”<br /><br />Her husband, chip shop owner Mike, 76, demanded for new laws to be put in place to protect pedestrians. <br /><br />He said: "The scooters themselves are okay, it’s the people who are driving them. It’s the speed they can do.<br /><br />"If the police put three points on your licence. They wouldn’t run the risk of it. There’s no deterrent."<br /><br />"She’s paranoid about using the paths now."<br /><br />"The police have been informed and we’re waiting to hear back from them. We see adults with kids on them. Or kids just using them."<br /><br />"The parents should have points put in their licence too."
