Myyrmäki scooter accident | The police confirm: Three of the girls were riding on a kickboard

Last weekly Myyrmäki electric scooter accident the investigation is ongoing. The police have interviewed all key parties to the accident and the police have a relatively clear picture of what happened.

The head of the investigation, the crime commissioner Asko Sartanen according to the report, it seems that the three girls were all riding the same electric scooter when the car hit them.

Sartanen according to witness observations play a significant role in investigating traffic accidents. There were several eyewitnesses to Wednesday’s accident who have been interviewed.

“People had made good observations on the spot.”

Sartanen does not comment further on the results of the investigation.

“When it comes to traffic matters, it is necessary to find out precisely the actions of both parties in the traffic situation, so that it can be seen whether one or both of them has broken the traffic rules.”

Investigation is exceptional in the sense that there have not yet been many serious accidents with electric scooters in Finland.

It is known that before Myyrmäki, the only fatal accident happened in Turku in 2021, when the bus was driving on a woman who was moving on an electric scooter.

Legislation for scooters changed in 2020 Road Traffic Act with the reform. According to the law, an electric scooter is equal to a bicycle in the intersection area.

The e-scooter must therefore give way to the motorist if he drives from the bike lane to the roadway or if the e-scooter drives from a courtyard street, pedestrian street, path, yard or similar area or when crossing the road at a place other than an intersection. In this case, the e-scooter must also avoid pedestrians and other road users.

On the other hand, in the eyes of the Road Traffic Act, the user of the electric scooter is a pedestrian, who must be given unobstructed passage on the crosswalk.

June also entered into force at the beginning reform of the Motor Insurance Actwith which electric scooter rental companies must obtain scooter insurance regardless of the weight and speed of the scooters.

The legal reform is based on the EU motor insurance directive. The change in law aims to transfer the medical costs of accidents that happen to e-scooterboarders in particular from taxpayers to insurance companies, i.e. in practice to rental companies.

Last in an accident that happened on Wednesday evening at around 8:15 p.m., a motorist hit three children who were riding an electric scooter.

One of the girls riding the board died. Two others had to be hospitalized, but were discharged from there already last week.

The driver of the car that hit the electric scooter is an adult woman.

The driver is currently suspected of grossly endangering traffic safety, causing death and two causing injury.

Sartanen points out that now there are only criminal suspicions at hand and the involvements may still change.