Woman weaves through busy traffic on an illegal e-scooter while carrying a child

A woman has been caught riding an e-scooter on a busy road without a helmet while carrying a child.

The video was uploaded on Twitter and has created controversy among users.

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It shows the woman riding the e-scooter with a baby as she tries to dodge cars in Turkey.

E-scooters are not allowed to be used on intercity roads and highways with a maximum speed limit above 50km/h in Turkey.

Also, the regulation only allows one person to be on the scooter at the same time.

The Turkish government decided to regulate e-scooters after an 18-year-old student died in a traffic accident in 2021.

According to official data recorded from April 2021 to June 2022, 8 people have lost their lives and 899 have been injured because of an e-scooter accident in Turkey.

Under the regulation, only people above 16 years old can drive e-scooters and only on bike lanes.

This week two students in Turkey died when they were driving an e-scooter back home from school.

Turkish authorities are considering including new regulations to stop the high number of accidents.

In Turkey’s capital, Istanbul there are approximately 36,000 e-scooters.

Police have issued 1,500 fines to scooter riders for not respecting the rules so far.

The CEO of the Rental platform BinBin Scooters revealed that the average driver’s age is twenty-seven years old.

Meanwhile, in the UK in 2021, there were 1,359 casualties and nine deaths involving e-scooters.

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