CCTV shows gran being crashed into by female e-scooter rider as police launch probe from sort video angla full nagat Watch Video

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Police are investigating after a female e-scooter rider was caught on CCTV crashing into a gran on the pavement - leaving her badly injured.<br/><br/>Video footage captures the woman, believed to be in her 30s, smashing into 67-year-old Shirley Smith and knocking her to the ground.<br/><br/>The pensioner was left with severe bruising all over her body and says she is still seeking medical treatment for back pain since being flattened on April 9.<br/><br/>Northamptonshire Police said they were investigating the collision but nobody has yet been arrested.<br/><br/>Mrs Smith had been walking off her driveway towards a friend's car when she was ploughed into by the woman riding a Voi rental e-scooter.<br/><br/>CCTV shows the gran-of-two being sent sprawling to the floor along Windmill Avenue in Kettering, Northants., before getting up and remonstrating with the rider.<br/><br/>According to Mrs Smith, the woman then blamed her for the accident and demanded to know why she 'didn't look where she was going' before speeding away.<br/><br/>Mrs Smith and her husband Mike are now calling for harsher punishments for e-scooter riders breaking the law. <br/><br/>She said: \