An electric scooter rider was hit by a vehicle in northeast Atlanta on Tuesday evening, authorities said.
Just before 7:15 p.m., officers responded to the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Rocky Ford Road, Atlanta police said. A man, who said his back hurt, had been hit by a car, but the rider “refused any medical treatment,” police said.
The car’s driver remained at the scene, and the e-scooter rider was cited for failure to obey a traffic signal, police said. No other details on the incident have been released.
This incident comes the day after hundreds attended a town hall meeting about e-scooter regulations, which has become a hot topic in Atlanta following four scooter-related deaths since May. Three of those deadly wrecks happened in the city's limits, while one happened in East Point.
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Earlier in August, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an executive order banning e-scooters and electric bikes between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. Three of the four fatal incidents took place after 9 p.m., while the fourth happened about 6:30 a.m.
However, the same day as the ban went into effect, a rider was hit by a car in Buckhead. Atlanta police cited the scooter rider as the party at fault in that incident.
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When the scooters were introduced to the city in May 2018, Atlanta officials have battled with how to regulate them.
After a 10-month grace period, city officials recently announced that police would begin cracking down on people caught riding on sidewalks instead of in the street. Fines for those caught riding on sidewalks could range as high as $1,000.
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The city is considering further regulations that would limit the number of scooters and how to create protected bike lanes with temporary barriers. At the same time, the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition and PEDS, a pedestrian advocacy group, are calling for speed limits on surface streets within the city to be reduced to 25 mph.
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