The new Mobility ordinance prepared by the Santa Cruz City Council will introduce the obligation to wear a helmet for scooter users. This was announced yesterday by the Councilor for Security, Evelyn Alonso, after a 15-year-old boy lost his life in Santa Cruz after suffering an accident with a scooter.
The mayor, in statements to the media, pointed out that, “although at the state level the fixed norm that only minors under 16 years of age wear a helmet, we will introduce into the new ordinance the obligation that all scooter users wear a helmet” .
Precisely everything related to the safety of the circulation of Personal Mobility Vehicles (VMP) is what the residents have demanded the most during the period of citizen participation open for the new Mobility ordinance, the same one that Alonso announced will be ready in May of the next year.
The councilor assured that, in the new norm, it will be a priority to regulate the circulation of these vehicles, so that, within the framework of powers that corresponds to the City Council, legislation will be legislated for greater control of them.
Alonso defended the need for the General Directorate of Traffic to clarify the traffic rules for VMPs, as well as for more information campaigns to be carried out, such as the one launched by the Santa Cruz City Council.
The young deceased in Santa María del Mar he is the first fatality in the province of Santa Cruz due to an accident with a scooter; In this case, the minor died after hitting a car on Punta de Teno street.
