A 40-year-old Bayside man has been charged with a number of offences for allegedly driving a personal scooter in a harmful method and injuring a police officer in Birkdale yesterday afternoon.
At 12pm, the 48-year-old Senior Constable was conducting pace digicam duties when he detected an electrical scooter travelling on Dorsal Drive in the direction of the Birkdale Shopping Centre at 45kmph.
Fifteen minutes later, the officer sighted the identical electrical scooter travelling on Dorsal Drive, Birkdale away from the procuring centre.
The officer gestured for the rider cease however it will likely be alleged the rider continued to cross to the flawed facet of the street, collided with him, and threw him to the bottom.
The officer sustained quite a lot of accidents together with a bump to his head, gravel rash to his left elbow and swelling to the bottom of his neck.
The man dropped a bag of procuring in the course of the collision earlier than leaving the scene which led Detectives to view CCTV of neighbouring outlets to trace him all the way down to a Mahie Crescent handle the place he was arrested and the e-scooter was seized.
The 40-year-old has been charged with severe assault police, failure to adjust to duties of driver concerned in a crash, harmful operation of a automobile, unlicensed driving, unregistered and uninsured automobile. He stays in police custody and can seem within the Cleveland Magistrates Court right now.