Motor vs E-Scooter crash: Liability and reporting procedure?

Get a dashcam front and rear. They are relatively inexpensive these days. Installed one on our family car after a road rage incident involving a lunatic driver who subsequently lied to the guards about what she did . Needless to say they didn't believe a word as there was holes the size of Texas in her stories.

Whether they are legal, illegal or a grey area is absolutely and totally irrelevant to your liability. At the end of the day the court will look at this through the lens of a "vulnerable road user" being struck by a motorist, a motorist who is licenced taxed, and INSURED. As with cyclists and pedestrians, it doesn't matter if they vulnerable road user was blatantly reckless with their safety or not, the insured motorist will be deemed to be liable almost by default. They only thing the court might do is, in extreme circumstances of recklessness, make a finding of contributory negligence which might reduce the payout by some percentage. But the long and the short of it, you will be found liable and your insurer will have to settle regardless of anything anyone says about the legality of scooters. That is just the way it is.

Also, I think you should consider yourself to be blessed to be getting away with a €500 bill. Count yourself extra lucky if there isn't a personal injury claim coming your way once her parents and friends get into her ear.

Also, it was incredibly foolish to take her into your car and bring her anywhere. Are you male or female OP? If you are male you have been stupendously foolish as you would leave yourself open to retrospective claims of coercion, abduction and sexual molestation against which you would have no defence as there would be no female witness to testify in your favour. You should not have done that. You should have called the Gardai, or maybe a female passer by to assist her and be a witness while ye exchanged details.

I don't think anyone can give you any meaningful information until you tell a consistent story. In one post you clipped her with your left wheel, in the next she drove into you, she was on the footpath, she was on the road, she was going "at speed", yet managed to remain standing after a crash.