A grandmother broke her wrist after she was mowed down by an e-scooter as she walked with her granddaughter.

Karen Ingram said she had just stepped off her driveway in Loose Road, Maidstone, with three-year-old Alice when the scooter suddenly crashed into her and knocked her to the floor.

The 63-year-old said: “I had just walked off my driveway to collect my other granddaughter Chloe from school and the scooter came out of nowhere.

“It spun me around so I was facing the opposite direction and knocked me over.”

Karen, who works in a GP surgery, managed to get herself up after the accident just before 3pm on Tuesday (October 19) but was in serious pain.

She said: “I knew I had broken my arm because of the pain. I have broken my other wrist before so I just knew.”

Luckily the scooter missed her granddaughter but Karen said the youngster was still scared.

“The paramedics checked her over,” she said. “She was very frightened but she was ok.

“If the scooter had hit her I don’t think she would be here now...”

“If the scooter had hit her I don’t think she would be here now. It was going so fast and they are so heavy.”

Karen had to get her husband to make arrangements to collect her other granddaughter from school while Karen was taken to hospital.

She is home now and awaiting an operation.

The e-scooter rider was also taken to hospital with concussion after the crash knocked him into the road.

“He was lucky the traffic was at a standstill,” Karen said. “It could have been a lot worse.”

Karen always walks with her granddaughter to collect her other granddaughter from school but says she is going to be more wary from now on.

“It’s a nice walk but I will be wary now,” she said.

She added: “I never realised how heavy the scooters are and they go really fast.”

Karen doesn’t think they should be allowed on the pavement.

“If they have to be around they should be on the road,” she said. “They’re not flimsy like a push bike. They can cause a lot of damage.”

An ambulance spokesman confirmed an ambulance was called shortly before 3pm on October 17 to reports of a collision between a pedestrian and a person on an e-scooter on Loose Road, Maidstone.

Ambulance crews attended the scene and the two people were assessed and treated before being taken to Tunbridge Wells Hospital for further checks.