E-scooter drivers score high for traffic violations

[Handout/Hellenic Police]

E-scooter drivers are racking up traffic violations arsenic constabulary turn their attraction to the comparatively caller summation to Greece’s idiosyncratic transport mix, information showed Monday.

A constabulary statement said that a focused traffic constabulary crackdown connected e-scooters successful the Greater Athens portion from Thursday to Sunday resulted successful 127 radical being fined for not wearing a mandatory clang helmet – and 8 for drunken driving. A total 397 radical were stopped for inspection.

Nationwide, constabulary besides said Monday, e-scooter riders figured prominently connected a database of violations for driving without a clang helmet. In the week of April 27, 1,568 radical were fined nationwide for riding a motorbike oregon e-scooter without caput protection, and astir 1 successful three – 449 – were connected e-scooters.