With a capacity of 25 km/h equivalent to a galloping horse, the electric scooter in France is not its first victim.
The death of a 5-year-old Ukrainian boy struck on June 29 in Nice is part of a sad series.
According to Road Safety, no less than 22 people died, and 6,000 others injured in 2021 for using the two-wheeled vehicle.
Last September, again, a 23-year-old young man died after falling on his head - he was not wearing a helmet - in Charente-Maritime.
Why are these types of accidents increasing?
Are the users at fault or should we blame too light regulations?
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What are the rules for scooters?
Until 2019, electric scooters, which were booming in large cities, circulated freely.
Faced with the resurgence of accidents and complaints from road users, a decree of October 2019 finally included these two-wheelers in the Highway Code.
They become a category of vehicles in their own right and, therefore…
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