Dr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, has been interviewed on September 19, 2023 by Spanish Radio Television (RTVE) for its news program of the Valencian Community, regarding the modifications that some users make to their electric scooters.

Nowadays it is common to find users of electric scooters in the bike lane. The speed limit for electric scooters is 25 km/hour.

With the boom in sales, it is observed that some of these scooters are modified by their users to exceed the speed limit.

According to Dr. Alonso, the lack of periodic inspection makes it easier to modify their characteristics to increase their speed, together with the fact that there is no adequate supervision of this type of vehicles.

According to INTRAS data, in 2020, 94 people were hospitalized due to accidents involving scooters, in 2021 this number increased to 171 and this year it has already exceeded 300.