Last week, as soon as ms. Yang, a citizen, drove a vehicle out of the community, she was rear-ended by an electric bicycle that "could not be stopped" behind her, and the owner of the electric vehicle was sent to the hospital by ambulance and found cerebral hemorrhage and 6 rib fractures. The reporter noted that although the current electric vehicle national standard speed limit is set at 25 kilometers per hour, there are many electric vehicle owners who change the speed limit setting by their own online shopping decoder. At the same time, many car owners are still troublesome not to wear helmets, and electric vehicles frequently perform "Fast and Furious" on the road.
Some car owners have broken through the speed limit, and on urban trunk roads, electric bicycles are similar to bus speeds. Zhao Yuhan, a reporter of this newspaper, took a photo
The speed limit "golden hoop" was easily removed
According to the Beijing Municipal Regulations on the Administration of Non-Motor Vehicles, which will be implemented in November this year, a number of former temporary electric bicycles will no longer be on the road. This also means that after the elimination of this batch of electric vehicles, the electric bicycles on the road will be electric vehicles with a speed limit of less than 25 kilometers per hour produced according to the national standard. "The speed limit is 25 kilometers, which is not much faster than my bike." Many electric vehicle owners are "dissatisfied" with the speed limit and have moved their minds to solve the speed limit privately.
"Now the investigation is strict, the car dealership basically dare not give the speed limit, but you buy one on the Internet, it is very convenient to modify." The reporter visited a number of electric bicycle stores, and many shopkeepers gave buyers tips. The reporter then searched on the e-commerce platform and found that a direct search for keywords such as "electric vehicle speed limit" will show a list of speed controllers for various brands and models of electric vehicles.
Randomly click to open a store for consultation, the seller told reporters that after purchasing a speed controller, you can increase the speed of the electric vehicle to about 40 kilometers per hour, and the uphill will feel more energetic. When the reporter expressed "concern" that the speed change would be punished by the traffic police inspection, the shop owner said that the speed changer was the same as the appearance of the original car controller, and it could not be seen at all after replacement. "And after installing the speed changer, the speed display is still 25 kilometers per hour, as long as you see the traffic police, you can ride slowly."
In response to many car owners complaining that the current speed limit of electric vehicles is too strict, the reporter consulted a traffic police to understand that the current electric bicycle is divided into non-motorized vehicles to manage, if the speed exceeds 25 kilometers per hour or even reaches more than 40 kilometers, the electric bicycle actually has the attributes of an electric motorcycle, which needs to be regarded as a motor vehicle, and refers to a stricter management model, such as the driver needs to pass the relevant driver's license test, the vehicle needs to take the motor vehicle lane, the vehicle needs to be inspected annually according to the regulations, and so on.
Safety helmets are left idle by most car owners
In addition to privately "speeding up" electric vehicles, many electric vehicle riders do not wear helmets to drive also caused great safety risks. The reporter recently observed the electric bicycle driving situation at the intersection of Chaoyang Joy City during the evening rush hour and found that within 15 minutes, a large number of electric bicycles were driven, except for the brother who sold it, and only 8 cyclists wore helmets. Among the takeaway brothers, there are also a considerable number of people who do not wear helmets.
"Fear of trouble, unnecessary" has become the main reason why many electric bicycle riders do not wear helmets. "I don't think it's fast to ride, so there's no need to wear a helmet." Mr. Zhang, a citizen, said that he never wears a helmet when riding an electric car, and feels that it is "a big deal".
Summer heat, coupled with weak safety awareness, some car owners do not wear helmets.
Experts have called for mandatory helmet wearing
In fact, riding an electric bike and wearing a helmet is really not "making a fuss". At the online seminar on "Road Safety and Injury Prevention for Electric Bicycles" previously held by the Social Media Research Center of Peking University, Deng Xiao, deputy director of the Injury Prevention and Mental Health Department of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said bluntly: "Under the steady decline in the overall road traffic accident deaths in the country, the casualties of electric bicycle cyclists have shown a contrarian trend. Among the casualties in road traffic accidents nationwide in 2019, the number of deaths caused by driving electric bicycles reached 8639, and the number of injuries reached 44677, accounting for 70% of the casualties of non-motor vehicles. Electric bicycles have become a prominent problem in road traffic safety in China. ”
Deng Xiao also introduced that head injury is the most important cause of death in road traffic accidents. E-bike safety helmets can reduce head injuries by 63% and head injuries by 88%, and two-wheeled motor vehicle drivers without safety helmets are injured three times as many as helmet-wearers.
The reporter learned that at present, the Ministry of Public Security only recommends that electric bicycle cyclists wear helmets, and there is no unified enforcement, except for some local legislation to punish electric bicycle cyclists who do not wear helmets, more or more to persuade. In this regard, experts called for the current situation that the "speeding" of electric bicycles has become the "norm", and it is recommended to further legislate from the state to the local level to implement mandatory regulations on wearing helmets.
In addition, some citizens said that the one-sided emphasis on electric bicycle riders is in a weak position, and when there is a rubbing accident, they mostly believe that the owner of the car is responsible, which also makes the electric bicycle owner have a fluke mentality for dangerous riding.
(Original title: Online shopping speed limit decoder is troublesome not to wear a helmet, riding out of "Fast and Furious", dangerous!) ）
Source: Beijing Daily
Zhao Yuhan, a reporter of this newspaper
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