Starting from May 1, St. St. Petersburg will start catching traffic violators with electric scooters 17:23

Starting from May 1, St. In St. Petersburg, pedestrian inspectors with installed photo-video recording systems and vehicles will begin to detect traffic violations committed by users of electric scooters and other personal mobility devices (IM). In this respect reported in the press service of the city transport committee.

“The project not only enables recording of SIM parking violations and movements of two or more people. It is planned that inspectors will record facts about violations of traffic rules by users of personal mobility devices, and the identified information about violations will be transferred to kick-sharing operators for further action,” said Dmitry Vanchkov, Deputy Chairman of the Transport Committee.

He added that the issue of exchanging information with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on violations related to SIM use is also being considered.

April 15, government of the Russian Federation with some comments supported A bill that implies making electric scooters liable for violating traffic rules. First of all, the Council of Ministers proposes to correlate the size of fines with the degree of “social harm”. It was noted that the bill applies not only to electric scooter users but also to other SIMs. However, some of the proposed measures will also apply to cyclists. The Council of Ministers also believes that issues related to the registration of relevant crimes and their suppression should be resolved.

It has also been reported that there are electric scooters in Russia. may ban Ride alongside pedestrians.

Previously was named One way to reduce the number of accidents with electric scooters.