Woman on e-scooter on Spain's AP-9 motorway vanishes before fine
The Guardia Civil (Spanish Civil Guard) is searching for a woman who rode an e-scooter on the AP-9 motorway in Culleredo. The fine: 200 euros. She vanished before they arrived.
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E-scooter on the AP-9: the woman who vanished from the Guardia Civil
The morning of 22 July was no ordinary morning on the AP-9 as it passes through O Burgo, in Culleredo (A Coruña). A woman was seen riding an electric scooter along the motorway at rush hour, prompting alerts from several drivers. The Guardia Civil (Spanish Civil Guard) searched for her without success: by the time they arrived, she was gone.
The rules are clear: personal mobility vehicles are banned from interurban roads and motorways. The fine for doing so is 200 euros. If she is found, the scooter will come at a bargain price, a punishment many consider a joke.
A magic trick with two wheels and a battery
How she managed to disappear is the great mystery. She got in somewhere, slipped into the picture and got out wherever she could before the Guardia Civil showed up. That is not recklessness, that is having quicker reflexes than the DGT (Spain's traffic authority) itself. Some call her an "actress": in a single morning she starred in three episodes of a real-life sitcom; first the stunt on the motorway, then vanishing as the Guardia Civil arrived, and now a controversy in full swing.
Guilty or misunderstood?
Some argue that a scooter is less dangerous than a motorbike and that, with a licence, it should be allowed on the road. The counter-argument is overwhelming: it is not the weight of the thing, it is the difference in estimulante ilegal. A legal scooter travels at 25 km/h while everything else moves at 120. When you fall, it is not the scooter that cuts you down, it is the lorry behind you that never saw you. And if the scooter has been modified to go faster, the risk multiplies. One case illustrates the danger: someone doing 55 km/h against traffic with four times the legal blood alcohol limit. Quite the vanguard of alternative mobility.
The search remains open, or so they say. Meanwhile, the image of a ghost scooter prowling the AP-9 goes into the archive of things that should never happen. Fortunately, no one was injured. But next time, whoever comes across it may not be so lucky.
The morning of 22 July was no ordinary morning on the AP-9 as it passes through O Burgo, in Culleredo (A Coruña). A woman was seen riding an electric scooter along the motorway at rush hour, prompting alerts from several drivers. The Guardia Civil (Spanish Civil Guard) searched for her without success: by the time they arrived, she was gone.
The rules are clear: personal mobility vehicles are banned from interurban roads and motorways. The fine for doing so is 200 euros. If she is found, the scooter will come at a bargain price, a punishment many consider a joke.
A magic trick with two wheels and a battery
How she managed to disappear is the great mystery. She got in somewhere, slipped into the picture and got out wherever she could before the Guardia Civil showed up. That is not recklessness, that is having quicker reflexes than the DGT (Spain's traffic authority) itself. Some call her an "actress": in a single morning she starred in three episodes of a real-life sitcom; first the stunt on the motorway, then vanishing as the Guardia Civil arrived, and now a controversy in full swing.
Guilty or misunderstood?
Some argue that a scooter is less dangerous than a motorbike and that, with a licence, it should be allowed on the road. The counter-argument is overwhelming: it is not the weight of the thing, it is the difference in estimulante ilegal. A legal scooter travels at 25 km/h while everything else moves at 120. When you fall, it is not the scooter that cuts you down, it is the lorry behind you that never saw you. And if the scooter has been modified to go faster, the risk multiplies. One case illustrates the danger: someone doing 55 km/h against traffic with four times the legal blood alcohol limit. Quite the vanguard of alternative mobility.
The search remains open, or so they say. Meanwhile, the image of a ghost scooter prowling the AP-9 goes into the archive of things that should never happen. Fortunately, no one was injured. But next time, whoever comes across it may not be so lucky.
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