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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With electrical scooters appearing much often connected metropolis streets and adjacent campuses, Fresno constabulary are renewing warnings to riders astir information aft dozens of scooter-related crashes past year.
Fresno Police Department Sergeant Todd Turney said officers responded to 36 collisions involving scooters successful 2024, galore of them adjacent schoolhouse zones. Police determined that scooter riders were astatine responsibility successful astir 75 percent of those crashes.
"You're looking astatine immoderate important injuries that tin beryllium sustained, from breached bones to nonaccomplishment of consciousness to the worst-case scenario, being imaginable death," Turney said.
Police accidental the fig of crashes underscores ongoing concerns astir rider behaviour and awareness.
Turney said galore incidents impact riders failing to wage attraction to traffic, pedestrians oregon postulation controls.
"That the operators of the scooters aren't needfully paying attraction to their surroundings oregon operating them successful a harmless mode with respect to different vehicles oregon pedestrians," Turney said erstwhile asked what the clang information indicates.
Earlier successful the day, we saw a scooter rider astatine Fresno State entering a crosswalk and narrowly missing a passing car, highlighting the adjacent calls constabulary accidental they often encounter.
Turney urged parents to speech with children who usage scooters astir safety.
"If parents retired determination person a young 1 that's riding the scooter, we privation them to talk to them astir scooter safety," helium said.
The renewed information connection comes arsenic a caller survey by Uplift Legal Funding ranked respective Central Valley counties among the astir unsafe successful the authorities for cyclists.
Fresno and Kern counties tied for eighth place, portion Merced County was ranked 12th.
Cyclists and scooter riders look peculiar risks due to the fact that they deficiency the extortion of a full-size vehicle, according to Ron Chakov of Motion Madness E-Bikes successful Clovis. Visibility is besides a challenge.
"Be alert of your surroundings, you know. What could happen? (Are) cars coming from antithetic directions," Chakov said.
He added that making riders much disposable could assistance trim crashes.
"You are the small 1 retired there. So, you privation to beryllium noticed, and the visibility, you're right, with the LED lights and headlights successful general, I deliberation could marque a difference," Chakov said.
Police are urging riders to dilatory down, deterioration helmets and travel the aforesaid postulation laws arsenic different vehicles connected the road.
"You're inactive required to obey the laws of the roadway, truthful stopping astatine the halt signs, stopping astatine the halt lights, making definite that the roadways are wide earlier you participate the roadways," Turney said.
Officers besides emphasized that scooter riders tin beryllium cited if they are recovered astatine responsibility successful a collision. Such citations tin outgo riders a fewer 100 dollars.
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