{"id":62879,"date":"2026-08-08T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/62879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:50:10","slug":"paris-orders-e-scooter-users-to-wear-helmets-reflective-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/62879\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris orders e-scooter users to wear helmets, reflective gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Electric scooter riders in Paris must now wear helmets and reflective gear under new rules introduced after a significant rise in injuries involving the two-wheelers, police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new rules, which took effect in Paris and its inner suburbs on Friday, apply to anyone riding motorised mobility devices including e-scooters, Segways and hoverboards, which police say are growing in popularity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rental e-scooters have been off the capital&#8217;s streets since 2023, when Paris voted to ban them over safety concerns, but privately owned devices remain widely used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the latest measure was prompted by a rise in accidents involving the devices, with &#8220;a significant proportion&#8221; causing serious or fatal head injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deaths among so-called &#8220;unprotected road users&#8221; &#8212; particularly those using motorised mobility devices &#8212; rose sharply in 2025, with 79 people killed, up from 45 the previous year, Paris police said, citing data from France&#8217;s road safety watchdog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some 1,100 e-scooter users were also seriously injured in 2025, a 33-percent increase from the previous year, according to the same data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Failure to wear a helmet carries a 135-euro ($156) fine, while those without a high-visibility vest or reflective gear face a 35-euro fine, police said, stating that the order applies at all times on public roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other European cities have in recent years cracked down on the two-wheelers, with Madrid banning rental e-scooters in 2024 and Brussels announcing in June it was following suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">mk-hdu\/ekf\/rmb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric scooter riders in Paris must now wear helmets and reflective gear under new rules introduced after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39070,39072,39071,30,288,39069],"class_list":["post-62879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-electric-scooter","tag-head-injuries","tag-mobility-devices","tag-paris","tag-paris-police","tag-reflective-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}