The leader of Bishop’s Stortford Town Council was injured when a boy on an electric scooter ploughed into her on a pedestrian crossing. Cllr Miriam Swainston, 65, suffered head and leg lacerations and needed hospital treatment. She is urging parents to ensure children do not ride the machines illegally. She told the Indie: “It was completely bizarre. The boy looked only about 12 or 13 and was ‘driving’ on The Causeway with no protective equipment.” She was using the crossing between the Northgate End multi-storey car park and Waitrose supermarket on Friday (July 19) at around 2.30pm. She belie…
