Teen bled to death after crashing e-scooter into parked people carrier, inquest ... trends now

A teen who had just celebrated his 18th birthday bled to death after he crashed an e-scooter into a parked people carrier and cut his jugular vein, an inquest heard.

Mason Pitt had hired a Neuron e-scooter from Slough Borough Council last June as part of a nationwide trial over e-scooters on public roads. The council experiment meant it was legal to ride the device on the public highway. 

He had been riding through the council with his girlfriend Kasey Miller on the back when he turned around to see where his friends had gone and swerved into a parked people carrier. 

Mr Pitt died at Wexham Park Hospital following the incident. A post-mortem examination later revealed that a piece of glass had cut the jugular vein in his neck.

The inquest was told that the teen broke two rules associated with the scooter scheme including not  wearing a helmet and riding the scooter after drinking. 

A toxicology report found that he only had 61mcg of alcohol in his blood, below the legal drink-drive limit of 80mcg.

Mr Pitt died on June 11, 2022 after crashing the e-scooter into the people carrier. The rear windscreen shattered and he fell backwards onto Ms Miller, who thought he had 'popped his nose' because of the amount of blood.

The hearing was told that she ran back to her parents' home on the same road to get help and dialled 999 while his friends, only seconds behind, held a jumper around his neck in desperate attempts to stem the bleeding and save his life.

Three separate calls were made to 999 about Mr Pitt in the early hours of June 11 last year - one at 0255am, another at 0303am and the third at 0305am. It took paramedics 29 minutes to arrive on the scene from the first call.