A boy (12) from Vranje who fell under a truck while riding an electric scooter last week is now in a stable condition, the clinic announced. His leg was previously amputated.
According to the High Public Prosecutor's Office, the boy did not stop at the intersection even though he should have. He allegedly took the scooter while his parents were at work, reports Blic.
ลฝivojin Spasiฤ, head of the Clinic for Children's Surgery in Niลก, where the boy is placed, appealed to parents not to buy their children electric scooters and motorbikes. "It does not matter to us that, regardless of all our efforts and work, part of the children remain permanently disabled. I appeal, wherever possible, stop it," he said.
According to the law, electric scooters can be operated from the age of 14, and then with some restrictions. But it is not uncommon for younger children to drive it as well.
Damir Okanoviฤ, the president of the Serbian Committee for Traffic Safety, says that the child is the responsibility of the parents, but that "as a nation, we are quite uneducated and ignorant in terms of traffic, and that is not through our own fault."
"We do not have an appropriate program of traffic education and upbringing, neither in kindergartens, nor in primary and secondary schools. Traffic is the leading cause of death in the population between the ages of 15 and 29", Okanoviฤ reminds "Vreme".
The Movement for the Reconstruction of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) in Vranje sent an appeal to ban the use of electric scooters and scooters for minors in urban areas.
