Hair-raising video: two electric scooter drivers nearly killed by a bus
The video shows a frightening sequence of images: the electric scooter driver and his passenger runs a red light, then due to the proximity of the bus, they freak out which causes them to fall. Their lives were at stake.
The bus had the green light, but the reckless behaviour of the scooter driver and his passenger almost resulted in a fatal accident.
According to an expert who spoke to RTL, electric scooters are “unclearly classified as micro-mobility devices” and are not regulated by the Highway Code. Although they have been on the roads for years, it was only in March, in the case of a drunk e-scooterist, that the Curia, the highest judicial authority in Hungary, decided to classify electric scooters as motor vehicles.
Moreover, vehicles with a speed of more than 25 km/h should be treated by the police according to the rules for cyclists or mopeds, but this is not always the case. Electric scooter riders are not required to wear helmets or other protective gear, nor do they need a driving licence to use the vehicle.
The Ministry of Construction and Transport has informed us that amendments to the Highway Code for e-scooters are already in the pipeline, but no date has been given for the promised draft.
The footage shows that in this case, the accident was not due to confusion over the classification of the vehicle, but because the driver failed to stop at a red light.
As we wrote earlier, a car’s on-board camera captured a horrific accident: a herd of deer ran across the road and one of the animals straight clashed with a vehicle. Watch the video HERE.
These scooters are a menace and a blight. Firstly, what, we need LESS exercise because we walk too MUCH!?! Secondly, many of them zoom around like absolute a-holes, on the sidewalks, at high speeds. Lastly, they’re dumped all over the place, strewn across sidewalks, etc. It was a cute little experiment, the “green” lobby got the kickbacks it wanted, a bunch of E.U. Net Zero boxes were checked… – now it’s time to withdraw this garbage from our streets.
Fully support the said by Michael Steiner!!!!
This scooters are already everywhere, they are dropped everywhere, they drive everywhere. They present serious problem to either the pedestrians and the drivers. They are already far too many. This is not an eco mode alternative transport , this is just a clear type of rough search of more profit by the operating companies. The authorities in Paris already banned them.
No need to regulate them just need to ban the import.
If this is not possible then they should be this way regulated in order to minimize the possibility they to Interfere to the pedestrians and to the drivers and namely : should be prohibited to be used on other places than those for the bicycles, should be liable to be parked only at a marked places. If not not – the policy to confiscate it, like if I do not park properly I get fined, right….Without huge fines there will be same shit like now.
But instead to try regulate and control the best option is just to ban the import of this consecutive Chinese garbage!
The government MUST clean the traffic from the scooters.
Just came back from Japan, no scooters, no eating in the streets, no talking in public on phone.
We will never be Japan in 100 years. But at least, for our safety, clean our sidewalk from the menace of scooters and bicycle