Almost 130 km / h developed on the stand of an electric scooter seized from a teenager in Germany

The modified electric scooter showed a maximum speed of 127 km/h on the test bench. Before that, the 16-year-old boy was seized by the police of the German city of Iserlon (North Rhine-Westphalia), the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti”.

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A group of teenagers on scooters attracted the attention of law enforcement officers, since in Germany such equipment is popular and becomes the subject of criminal encroachment, and also increasingly gets into accidents. According to BILD, the young people, noticing the police, chose to escape. Only a 16-year-old man was arrested. His electric scooter was sent for testing. The value of the speed shown by him is theoretical, since it is obtained during measurements without a driver. With him, the scooter is unlikely to accelerate to 127 km / h. Nevertheless, the indicator surprised law enforcement officers.

The police noted that tuning a scooter on electric traction, improving its speed characteristics, is very dangerous: standard brakes, tires, suspension are not designed for increased speed. It also poorly combines the high center of gravity of the scooter with the driver: maneuvering, slowing down safely becomes more difficult. These discrepancies increase the risk of falls, accidents with serious consequences, and not only the drivers themselves, but also random passers-by can suffer.