British man convicted for riding Segway on the sidewalk, can’t ride on the street either

The United Kingdom’s Department for Transportation passed regulations making Segways subject to road traffic laws four and a half years ago, which effectively banned their use on Britain’s sidewalks . And now, after years of apparent non-enforcement, UK’s Highway Act of 1835 has finally claimed its first Segway-riding victim. An unemployed factory worker was convicted of riding a motor vehicle on a “pavement”, which apparently is another word for sidewalk in the Queen’s English, and was ordered to pay a total of

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