The police in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the 27-year-old drunk man arrested with a electric scooter on a motorway in the Cologne form.

According to the German press agency dpa that the man had even added a bottle of beer in his hand. A local politiewoordvoerder can do that, however, could not be confirmed at FIG. The steprijder has been punished for driving while under the influence.

finally, at Around 2.20 pm, and received the Cologne police department, numerous calls from people who are the men of the German A4 motorway had to look away. Within a few minutes of agents of the drunken man, and “they made put an end to the unsafe situation”.

According to the police, was the driver of the step-by accident-on the freeway to go. An alcohol test showed that the man had a blood alcohol level of 1.3 in his blood. That’s more than double the amount of the allowance for the car.

the Use of electric scooters increased in Europe

The German Autobahn is famous for its long stretches of roads where in some places no speed limits. Electric scooters tend to be no more than a 25-mile-per-hour.

The vehicle can not drive on highways or freeways, but it’s all wrong. So it was a Frenchman, in August, killed when he was hit by a motorcycle on a highway on the outskirts of Paris.

The use of the so-called e-scooters has been on since the summer, has increased enormously in Germany. In Cologne, there’s about 40,000 of them around. Also in Munich, and in Berlin they are very popular, especially with tourists. In the meantime, there are a variety of European cities and towns, businesses, driving with a deelsteps have to offer.

in the Netherlands you are allowed to be on an electric scooter to ride. This is allowed when the step-up by the ministry of Infrastructure, public Works and water management has been designated as an exceptional motorcycle.

See also: Is the electric step to be problematic in the road.