An e-scooter rider caught by police on a motorway instructed officers he was following his sat nav.
Surrey Police mentioned the male gave the excuse after being noticed on the M23 within the early hours of Sunday.
His e-scooter suffered a flat battery whereas he was in lane 4 – sometimes called the “quick lane”.
Police seized the contraption and took the male off the motorway.
The e-scooter is privately-owned, which implies it was banned from UK roads.
Authorized trials of rental e-scooters are being held in round 30 city areas throughout England.
The Twitter account run by Surrey’s roads policing groups posted on Sunday: “At 5.30am this morning officers attended the M23 to cope with an individual driving an e-scooter in lane 4 of the motorway!
“It was darkish and pouring with rain. The rider’s excuse? His sat nav instructed him to. So as to add to his issues his e-scooter ran out of battery energy, nonetheless in lane 4.
“The rider has been reported for a variety of offences.
“The scooter was seized and the rider taken off of the motorway and is fortunate to have averted being struck by one other car.
“E-scooters are unlawful for use on a street not to mention the motorway.”
It occurred two days after Surrey Police stopped a disqualified driver utilizing an e-scooter able to reaching 55mph.
The gadget was seized and the individual reported to courtroom for a number of offences.
Newest Authorities figures present 10 e-scooter riders have been killed and 331 have been critically damage in crashes on Britain’s roads in 2021.
That was up from one fatality and 105 critical accidents through the earlier 12 months.