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A man is fighting for his life after a collision involving a car and e-scooter in north London.

Emergency services rushed to the junction of Parsonage Lane and Baker Street in Enfield just before 4pm on Sunday.

The e-scooter rider, a man in his 30s, was taken to hospital in a critical condition, the Metropolitan Police said.

One witness who drove past the scene told the Standard the man was “in a bad way” and “it was obvious that the crews were very concerned”.

The Met said the driver stopped at the scene. No arrests have been made.

A London Ambulance Service spokeperson said: “We treated a man at the scene for a head injury before taking him to a major trauma centre as a priority.”

They added: “We were called at 3.58pm yesterday to reports of a road traffic collision at the junction between Parsonage Lane and Baker Street, Enfield.

“We sent numerous resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, a medic in a fast response car and an advanced paramedic. We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance.

“Our first medics arrived in less than three minutes.”

There have been six deaths in the capital linked to e-scooters since 2021, including a 14-year-old girl, the Standard reported earlier this year.

The Met police said it had not seen any “significant challenges” with e-scooters in an official trial scheme in 10 London boroughs.

But it highlighted fatalities linked with the illegal use of e-scooters and concerns over wider use of private e-scooters should a new class of low-speed zero-emission vehicle become law.

Transport for London (TfL), which oversees the rental trial scheme in the city, stressed e-scooters offer a “fresh potential alternative to car reliance” as a “genuinely new mode of transport”.

Privately owned e-scooters remain illegal on public roads but are widely available, and there are no standards for vehicle construction or rider requirements.

TfL said that “this is to the clear detriment of safety”.

More than 100 people were seriously injured riding e-scooters in London in 2021.

The first medical study into the injuries suffered by riders - and pedestrians they crash into – found that many suffered “life-changing” wounds, with almost a third requiring surgery.

Detectives from the Met’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses to the Enfield crash to come forward. Anyone who can help the investigation is asked to call 101 quoting cad 4360/23JUL2023.