PHUKET: Patong police have issued a warning after a sequence of on-line complaints led to 4 vacationers being charged for driving unregistered electric scooters within the space.
Several complaints had been lodged through social media channels that individuals driving electric scooters within the space across the Thanthip Beach Resort close to Chaloemphrakiat Road in Patong had been posing a menace to the security of pedestrians and fellow highway customers resulting from thoughtless and reckless driving.
The complaints alerted police who acted final Wednesday in a marketing campaign led by Pol Col Sujin Nilabadee, Patong Police Superintendent, and Pol Lt. Col. Preecha Baringpatanakul, Deputy Superintendent of Patong Police Station.
One vacationer was stopped close to the Police Booth Rat U-Thit on Pee Road round 6:30pm final Wednesday with three others later apprehended, two on Bangla Road.
It emerged that along with posing a hazardous menace to the security of individuals within the space, the scooters that the vacationers have been driving have been unregistered and not one of the riders have been capable of present any type of documentation referring to the automobiles.
The vacationers, whose identification and nationalites weren’t disclosed by police, have been charged with utilizing an unregistered and untaxed automobile. The scooters have been seized and brought to Patong Police Station the place an investigation will probably be performed to establish the origins and house owners, who could be charged sooner or later.
This prompted police to issue a common warning that anybody caught driving an unregistered automobile could be liable to be charged and fined, though the precise quantity was not specififed.
They additionally urged anybody driving electric scooters to be extra conscious of these round them to make sure the security of everybody on the roads and pavements within the space.