In Moscow, the movement speed of electric scooters and other personal mobility devices (IM) must be limited to 20 km/h. This was stated by Evgeniy Loginovsky, Deputy Head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Russia in Moscow, at the roundtable on the use of SIMs in the Moscow City Duma. transmits RIA News.
Additionally, as Loginovsky said, children and adolescents under 18 should be banned from using electric scooters, and this should be done “as quickly as possible.” According to him, there were 805 accidents involving SIM during 10 months of this year, of which more than 200 occurred in October.
There is currently a speed limit of 25 km/h in the capital and there are also slow zones where speeds are limited to 5-15 km/h.
From January to September 2023, including Russia was recorded 2.6 thousand accidents involving users of personal mobility devices; This figure is three times higher than in the same period of the previous year. While 26% of such accidents occurred on sidewalks, pedestrian paths and pedestrian zones, 22.8% of such accidents occurred at controlled pedestrian crossings.
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