VIDEO. Hair-raising crash test: car driving with 50 km/h dummy step

The electric scooter is in France - just as it is here - at a large advance now. High time for a crash test, ruled the French insurance company MMA. The test was yesterday morning place in Paris. The images are a few hours later, released.

The test went as follows: a car drove with a speed of 50 km per hour, a dummy, a step over. Only in slow motion it becomes clear how heavy the impact is. The dummy ends up with the head against the windscreen, and then meters into the air, catapulted. A similar collision has, according to experts 95% chance of a fatal outcome for the hit stepgebruiker. the

What's even worse: the test was performed with a stationary dummy. If there was a moving dummy would the damage be much higher. Many electric scooters get easily speeds of more than 25 km/h, sometimes even up to forty km/h. the

In the United States have landed since the end of the 2017 1.542 people in the hospital after accidents with scooters. In Spain came since last summer already at least two users of a deelstep to life. Insurance companies recommend that becoming a crash helmet, protective clothing and a reflective fluorescent jacket to wear. American research revealed that stepgebruikers without a helmet is 40% more likely to have a head injury. Also in the crash test was wearing the dummy no helmet. the

Who in our country going on the road with a scooter, can with no more than 6 kilometers per hour, walking pace so, on the footpath. On the bike path or the road, the permitted speed maximum eighteen kilometers per hour. It is possible that the speed limit in the future will be increased to 25 miles per hour.