09-04-2003, 09:09 PM
Fact: Those small anoying powered scooters you hear screaming around on the sidewalks and everywhere else that use gas do not have to be registered, nor do the riders have to be licensed. They pollute the air but that is acceptable.
Fact: A tube or pontoon using a electric motor has to be registered with the state of california. If you are out at night you have to have required lights on the vessel.
Fact: The laws are all screwed up. I have seen several accidents with these scooters in which they struck or were struck by a motor vehicle. Now the other vehicles had insurance, were registered and the drivers were licensed.
Not the operator of the scooter. They had nothing. Not even safety equipment, yet the state has done nothing to correct this.
Since those scooters have been around there has been 25 deaths as a result of accidents and something like 100 accidents with motor vehicles.
Pretty crazy state we live in. You have to be at least 16 to operate a motorcycle which has to be registered,insured and rider must wear a helment.
But this kid they took away in an ambulance yesterday was 12 with no safety equipment and was struck by a vehicle after he jumped off the curb and lost control of his scooter.
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Fact: A tube or pontoon using a electric motor has to be registered with the state of california. If you are out at night you have to have required lights on the vessel.
Fact: The laws are all screwed up. I have seen several accidents with these scooters in which they struck or were struck by a motor vehicle. Now the other vehicles had insurance, were registered and the drivers were licensed.
Not the operator of the scooter. They had nothing. Not even safety equipment, yet the state has done nothing to correct this.
Since those scooters have been around there has been 25 deaths as a result of accidents and something like 100 accidents with motor vehicles.
Pretty crazy state we live in. You have to be at least 16 to operate a motorcycle which has to be registered,insured and rider must wear a helment.
But this kid they took away in an ambulance yesterday was 12 with no safety equipment and was struck by a vehicle after he jumped off the curb and lost control of his scooter.
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