E-scooter Crackdown In Alhaurin

Alhaurin el Grande’s assembly has officially approved a caller section postulation bylaw traffic, replacing nan outdated 2001 regularisation connected electrical scooters.

The updated rules, effective immediately, bring successful overmuch stricter measures for electrical scooters, owed to their increasing fame and associated emergence successful accidents.

Key provisions see mandatory helmet use, effective now, and compulsory third-party liability security for e-scooter riders starting January 1, 2026. From October, constabulary will intensify postulation checks and enforce harsher penalties for non-compliance. Pablo Rengel, caput of nan section police, stressed that truthful acold Alhaurin el Grande is among nan fewer towns successful nan state pinch clear e-scooter regulations. “We inquire residents for practice and consciousness that, contempt being motorless, e-scooters must travel nan aforesaid postulation rules arsenic different vehicles,” he said.

The municipality has launched a phased implementation, starting pinch acquisition talks successful schools, followed by nationalist accusation campaigns and upcoming postulation enforcement pinch roadworthy blocks astatine definite intersections. A roadworthy information run targeting schools effort to instil respect for postulation rules from a young age. Mayor Anthony Bermudez expressed nan risks posed by irresponsible e-scooter use, reminding of 14 fatalities nationwide successful 2024. “These are vehicles for illustration immoderate other, pinch obligations and postulation rules. This caller rules fortify information for pedestrians and drivers,” he said.

With this clampdown, Alhaurín el Grande takes a important measurement toward cracking down connected vulnerable scooter use, putting nan information of each roadworthy users and pedestrians first.