Electric scooters. Photo: Unsplash.com
The police are currently running a country-wide monitoring week for electric scooters. Through surveillance, the police want to influence road users’ attitudes and traffic habits, so that unnecessary dangerous situations would decrease and fatal traffic accidents would be avoided.
Illegal electric kickboarding causes dangerous situations in traffic, which could often be avoided by following the traffic rules. In the capital region, for example, three fatal electric scooter accidents have already occurred in a short period of time during the summer of 2024.
– We will monitor the traffic behavior of electric scooters in an intensified manner for a week. We intervene systematically and with a low threshold for detected traffic crimes and violations, says police inspector Heikki Kallio from the Police Board.
We want a change in the transport methods of electric scooters
− Electric kickboarding would not be a problem if road users followed the traffic rules and the obligations set for traffic control devices. However, the problem is that the rules are not followed, says Kallio.
During the e-scooter monitoring week, all types of illegal traffic behavior by e-scooter boarders are dealt with, but especially such activity that disturbs and endangers other road users and endangers the e-scooter boarder himself.
Kallio also appeals to parents to share information with young road users about where and how to drive safely in traffic.
The most penalties for driving on the sidewalk
The police intervenes in illegal traffic behavior primarily through fines and traffic fines. During Monday and Tuesday, the police have already handed out more than 300 penalties, most of them for driving on the sidewalk and transporting passengers.
Inspection results 26 – 28 August 2024:
driving on the pavement, 15 fines and 330 traffic ticket charges
carrying a passenger, 11 fines and 75 traffic ticket charges
driving towards red lights, 34 fines
one-way bike lane in the wrong direction, 28 traffic violation charges
driving in the wrong direction, one fine and nine traffic ticket charges
tuned electric scooters, six pieces
failure to obey crosswalk rule, one fine and traffic violation charge
driving while intoxicated, one fine
The amount of the traffic violation fee is 40 euros, and the amount of the fine depends on income.
Source: Police
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