[사회]Electric skateboard rider collided with motorcycle and finally died

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There has been an accident where more users these days are electric scooters, and a driver crossing a crosswalk on a skateboard collides with a motorcycle and dies.

Reporter Seung-yoon Lee visited the scene of the accident.

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A crosswalk on the Nambu Beltway in Guro-gu, Seoul, A man in his 40s collides with a motorcycle while crossing the crosswalk on an electric float board.

Mr. A, who was not wearing a helmet at the time, suffered a serious head and back injury and was transferred to a nearby hospital for CPR, but eventually died.

[강희웅 / 서울 가리봉동 거주 목격자 : 오토바이하고 (전동) 킥보드하고 접촉 사고가 났어요. 그래서 오토바이는 30미터 정도 굴러가 있고, 킥보드 타신 분은 파카 점퍼를 입었는데 오리 털이 날려가지고….]

Mr. B, a man in his 30s who is a motorcyclist, was also injured and taken to hospital, and the police are investigating whether or not to observe the signal.

This is where the accident happened.

Residents say it is a high risk of accidents because it is generally downhill, so cars and motorcycles run fast and there are many skateboarders crossing the crosswalk.

With the widespread use of electric scooters, the number of traffic accidents involving this type of personal vehicle has soared from 117 in 2017 to 225 in 2018 and 447 in the past year.

The death toll rose to 4 dead and 124 injured in 2017, 4 killed and 238 injured in 2018, and 8 killed and 473 injured last year.

[강희웅 / 서울 가리봉동 거주 목격자 : 킥보드도 한 사람이 타는 게 아니고 두 사람이 타고 엄청 위험해 보여요. 그리고 킥보드가 속력이 있는 데다가 브레이크를 잡으면 잘 서지 않아요.]

The problem is that from the 10th an amendment to the Road Traffic Law will be implemented that allows people over 13 years of age to ride on an electric flotation board without a driver’s license and ride a bicycle on the road.

Incidents involving electric scooters are on the rise, but there is growing concern that the number of related accidents will increase as regulations are published.

YTN Seungyoon Lee[[email protected]]it is.

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