Transport Police distributed more than 80 traffic error charges to electric kickboarders in Helsinki on Tuesday

Helsinki police issued dozens of traffic error charges on Tuesday in connection with electric kickboard surveillance. At the separator, police said they had issued 15 traffic error charges in just two hours.

Director of the Helsinki Traffic Control Function, Chief Commissioner Dennis Pasterstein tweeted about it on Tuesday afternoon.

Pasterstein tells HS that police monitored the use of electric kickboards at the Separator for an hour in the morning and another hour in the afternoon. All traffic error charges were issued for the same reason.

“Driving on the sidewalk. There are quite narrow streets there. ”

According to Pasterstein, all the traffic error charges issued by the Separator amounted to EUR 40.

In the evening Pasterstein informed HS that later Tuesday police had a raid on Baltic Sea Street, where 67 traffic error charges were issued.

Thus, more than 80 payments were made in one day.

According to Pasterstein, the Helsinki police will monitor the use of electric kickboards throughout the summer.

“This is one of the Helsinki Police’s own priorities in traffic control.”

According to Pasterstein, the biggest problems focus on driving on the sidewalk, towards a red or one-way street in the wrong direction, and having two or even three people on board the ferries at the same time. Police control is the focus of these issues.

“The problem, of course, is that you don’t use a helmet when driving on electric kickboards.”