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On Fridays and Saturdays after midnight and until four in the morning, Voi’s electric scooters will be off in Copenhagen.
– We see and have been told that there will be more accidents then, says Eric André, manager of the company in Sweden and Denmark.
According to him, it is the company’s own initiative and not due to pressure from authorities or politicians.
– The user actually has the main responsibility not to use the vehicles with alcohol in the blood, but we try to take our responsibility. For example, many women have said that they feel safer when they can drive an electric scooter from door to door, so we want it to be safe.
Most night accidents
International studies have shown that 37 percent of those who had an accident with an electric scooter had alcohol in their blood. According to information from Folksam, almost half of the accidents occur between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and 56 percent on weekends.
– There is beginning to be more data on the subject now and that is good because then we will see what we have to work with.
But in Sweden, there are no expectations of an overnight stop on electric scooters.
– We communicate with road safety organizations and do various things to counter accidents and drunk driving, but turning them off is not on the agenda here and now, says Eric André.
