– As a result of the new rules for driving electric scooters under the influence of drugs, it was necessary to clarify the issues raised regarding the temporary revocation of driving privileges and the confiscation of the driving license, says Deputy Prosecutor Andreas Seehusen Karlsbakk in a press release by Elden Advokatfirma.
Together with attorney John Christian Elden, she represents a woman who was stopped by the police on July 8 this summer while driving an electric scooter in Oslo.
A breath test showed the woman had a blood alcohol level of 0.98 half an hour after she was stopped.
June 15 entered the new rules which reclassifies electric scooters from “bicycle” to “motor vehicle” in all respects. This means you can lose your drunk driving license with an electric scooter.
Cancel the sentence
The police temporarily confiscated the woman’s license, but because the woman refused, the police sent the case to the district court.
The district court ruled in favor of the woman, but the prosecution appealed to the Court of Appeal, which said they can temporarily seize her driver’s license until the case against her is finally decided.
Now the Supreme Court Appeals Commission has overturned the Court of Appeals ruling.
“The commission has no concrete assessment of why his use of the E-scooter under the influence of alcohol indicates that it poses such a risk to road safety that he must be temporarily deprived of the right to drive until the confiscation issue it will be decided in an ordinary criminal case»Writes the appeal commission.
No information on high speed
The committee points out that the purpose of temporarily depriving someone of their driving license until a case is resolved is to immediately remove dangerous drivers from traffic.
“There is no information that A (the woman, ed) was accelerating, was a danger or a nuisance to someone or behaved recklessly or recklessly,” they write.
The appeal commission also points out that the woman has been driving for 25 years without any reaction.
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