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Denver policeman was dispatched to Interstate 70 on the morning of Thursday, May 11, after getting a call about a man and woman on a single Lime scooter riding between traffic lanes on the busy highway in the pouring rain.
Footage of the unfazed odd couple has been making the rounds on social networks over the previous couple of days, with the majority of people wondering the same thing: Where the hell did these 2 requirement to get to so badly? There are 2 individuals riding a scooter on I-70. This is so scary and I hope they end up all right. pic.twitter.com/e7jlGFtta6
—-- Katie Eastman (@KatieEastman) May 11, 2023
" We received a call for a scooter on the highway Thursday early morning, shortly after 10:30 a.m.," states a
Denver Police Department spokesperson. "An officer was dispatched, but the scooter riders had left the highway by the time they got here."
Mobile phone video posted on Instagram by an account called @chaperon_stunts showed the pair traveling west on I-70 toward the
Washington Street exit. They were riding their scooter along lane markers between automobiles.
According to the DPD, if the officer had actually discovered them, they would have been "safely directed off the highway" and likely provided a citation for breaching Colorado Title 42, which disallows low-speed electrical cars from taking a trip on state highways. Comments have poured in on social media offering theories about the I-70 scooter riders.
" A low-speed electrical vehicle might be run only on a street that has a speed limit equivalent to or less than 35 miles per hour," the DPD notes.
" It might be run to straight cross a road that has a speed limit greater than 35 miles per hour at an at-grade crossing to continue taking a trip along a road with a speed limitation equivalent to or less than 35 miles per hour," the statute checks out. "a low-speed electric automobile might be operated on a state highway that has a speed limit equal to forty."
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Denver Police dispatched an officer to discover the scooter riders, but to no avail. Instagram/@chaperon_stunts
Limes scooter guidelines plainly specify that only one individual is enabled to ride at a time. That, combined with where the set chose to take their ride, produced an unsafe combo.
" This is extremely hazardous and could cause major injury and even death," says the police spokesperson.
Earlier today-- on May 7 at around 10 p.m.-- 2 individuals riding one scooter were struck and seriously hurt by a car at the crossway of 18th and Market streets. The location remains in a part of LoDo where
Denvers Department of Transportation and Infrastructure is now making "multimodal travel enhancements," including a secured bike lane on Blake Street, according to DOTI officials.
" The department encourages riders to securely operate standup scooters in locations for which they are meant," states the DPD spokesperson. "Thankfully, it appears [the I-70 riders] had the ability to exit the highway safely, and the department does not intend to attempt to locate them to cite them after the reality for a low-level traffic violation."
He concludes: "Simply put, please do NOT take a standup scooter on the highway."
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