E-scooter riders almost always drunk when they crash at night

Well, in somewhat simplified

Well, in somewhat simplified terms, yes. If you have a quick half and it goes straight to your head, making you a bit wobbly when you ride off, you’re committing an offence, whereas if you have 2 or 3 and yet are able to remain in perfect control of the bike, you’re not.

[Edit] Oh wait – I see – unfit – because they have a beer belly.  Sorry – I was being a bit slow there. I haven’t touched a drop, though, honest.

You mean if they have a beer

You mean if they have a beer belly they have a greater tolerance ?

It’s not illegal to have a

It’s not illegal to have a drink and cycle or have a drink and drive.

Did you check how much each cyclist was drinking ?

and hi viz?

and hi viz?

That’s what happens when you

That’s what happens when you post while drunk.

When I read the headline I just thought that if I’d just crashed my escooter I might want to go and get drunk as well.

There were a crucial couple

There were a crucial couple of words omitted from the original headline when it was posted above:

E-scooter riders almost always get drunk when they crash at night, study finds

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And at night, more than nine in 10 injured scooter users were drunk

I’m not sure that “four in

I’m not sure that “four in ten” and “almost always” mean the same thing.

Six in ten were, presumably, not drunk.