Electric scooters land in the world of illegal street racing. The Ponte delle Valli in Rome, the viaduct of the Italian capital that connects the Africano and Montesacro districts, was in fact chosen as a racing circuit by a group of very young people, who obviously battled each other aboard their vehicle. illegal, all while on the opposite side of the road the cars passed regularly. Overall, seven boys were involved in this stunt: a very high risk for them, given the danger of the gesture.
First cars, then horses, then motorbikes, and now also electric scooters are added to the list of vehicles used throughout Italy to complete these clandestine races. Precisely those means that have been integrated into everyday mobility in the name of sustainability, now they become the protagonists of senseless stunts carried out by reckless young people. The events in Rome will accentuate even more the already many perplexities that revolved around the introduction of these vehicles, considered by many to be “dangerous” even in ordinary traffic, let alone when we see episodes of this type. The police are already working to identify the seven boys who took part in the middle of the night to this clandestine race filmed by a camera and published on the Instagram account “Welcome to favelas”.
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