The Melaka police have known as in a 27-year outdated YouTuber for questioning after a video of him allegedly using a modified micromobility car, initially posted on TikTok yesterday morning, went viral, The Star experiences.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that the micromobility car had been modified and fitted with a roof. The car was seen being ridden by a person with two male pillion riders on the Lee Rubber visitors lights alongside the Alor Gajah-Melaka Tengah-Jasin (AMJ) freeway,” mentioned Melaka police chief deputy comm Datuk Dzulkhairi Mukhtar in a press release at this time.
A bike registered MDJ1154 that belongs to mentioned YouTuber is believed to have been used to report the footage of the micromobility car in query.
The police have contacted the YouTuber to ask him to offer his assertion on the freeway patrol enforcement division of the Melaka Tengah police HQ’s visitors investigation and enforcement division, however had been knowledgeable that he’s at present in Sabah on enterprise till Could 16 and can cooperate by attending along with his lawyer on Could 17.
The Melaka highway transport division (JPJ) yesterday reiterated that micromobility automobiles resembling e-scooters, hoverboards, monowheels, Segways and unapproved electrical bicycles are not road-legal. Below Part 54(1) of the Street Transport Act 1987 [Act 333], any particular person working an unauthorised car on a public highway could also be prosecuted, and if convicted, could also be fined as much as RM1,000, imprisoned for as much as three months, or each.
“Micromobility automobiles are solely permitted in designated areas resembling leisure parks, devoted lanes, or personal premises, not on public roads,” Melaka JPJ deputy director Khairul Aswad Abdul Halim mentioned.
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