Three scooter accidents in the past few days in Veliko Tarnovo region have been reported by law enforcement agencies, Nova TV reports. Two of them are serious – on Monday, a 55-year-old man died in Gorna Oryahovitsa after being hit by a car. And on Tuesday, a 12-year-old child was injured and has a head injury after crashing himself in Lyaskovets.
Against this background, security cameras filmed a man trying to turn his car, and a boy on a scooter crosses his path, turns back, curses at the driver, and then runs away. The incident is just meters from the place where the 12-year-old child was injured. Another video between Gorna Oryahovitsa and Lyaskovets shows two children on a scooter without helmets on the main road.
Georgi Vassilev from the “Traffic Police” – Veliko Tarnovo explained that from January 1 to today, 12 traffic accidents involving individual electric vehicles have occurred in the region. Of these, 11 were seriously injured - 13 injured and 1 deceased. The police have issued a total of 262 fines with a ticket and 30 fines with a report for this period.
Vassilev recalled that the minimum age for using scooters is 16 years.
He pointed out that a police operation is being carried out in the Veliko Tarnovo region to identify road violations, and drones are also involved.