Students riding scooters without helmets and using electric bikes as scooters face fines and seizures in Cagliari.
Accelerators on pedal-assist bicycles, local police say, "They also pose a risk to your safety."Per restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
Checks on electric scooters and bicycles have intensified in Cagliari. In recent days, a patrol of plainclothes local police motorcycle riders fined seven people for riding scooters without helmets .
Two pedal-assisted bicycles, converted into actual scooters by adding a throttle to avoid pedaling, as required for that type of vehicle, were also seized. The vehicles were found to be exceeding the maximum speed limit of 25 km/h.
Checks were carried out, as regards scooters, near school buildings during student entry and exit times and in other areas of the city as regards electric bicycles .
These checks will continue, local police emphasize, also to protect the safety of the drivers of these vehicles.
(Unioneonline)