Scooter riders broke the rules 42% more often
Who got the biggest fine for riding a scooter last year
6 June 2025
In 2024, there were 71 court cases involving electric scooters, according to the court registry search tool “Babusia”. Usually, riders are fined from 340 to 34,000 UAH, and sometimes they lose their driving license. The biggest fine was given to a man from Odesa who was riding an electric scooter while drunk.
Last year, 71 offenses involving electric scooter riders were recorded in the Babusia database. Over the year, the number of such cases increased by 42%. This year, the court registry already shows at least 17 such cases.
| Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of cases | 32 | 17 | 50 | 71 | 17 |
Scooter riders are usually involved in administrative offenses. For example, this year there have been 13 administrative and 4 criminal cases. Last year, there were 64 administrative and 7 criminal cases.
The highest fine for drunk driving was given to a scooter rider in Odesa in June 2024. The man didn’t have a driver’s license and had been caught riding drunk before. The court fined him 34,000 UAH and made him pay court fees. If he had a driver’s license, he would have lost his driving rights.
Seventeen other people were fined 17,000 UAH each over the past two years. Fifteen of them were drunk while riding, and two were under the influence of drugs. Three people were banned from driving any vehicles for one year.
Since 2023, electric scooters (including unicycles, Segways, etc.) have been officially recognized as vehicles. This allows police and courts to treat scooter riders like car drivers when it comes to responsibility and penalties. However, there are still no separate traffic rules or legal penalties specifically for electric scooter riders. This legal gap could be fixed by draft laws 3023 (from 2020) and 10441 (from 2024), which are still under review in the Ukrainian parliament, according to Mykola Poliukhovych, a board member of the NGO U-Cycle (Kyiv Cyclists’ Association).
«Electric scooter riders are not allowed to ride on sidewalks. Right now, they also can’t use bike lanes, which are meant only for cyclists — even though scooters have similar features and could logically share that space. So, scooter riders must ride on the main road and follow general traffic rules. If they break those rules, they are held responsible, because any vehicle with an electric motor is considered a source of increased danger to others on the road. Since anyone can easily rent or buy an electric scooter, and the number of court cases and police reports involving scooter riders keeps growing, this issue clearly needs a proper legal solution»,
— says Mykola Poliukhovych.
Source: Opendatabot
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