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For once, this isn’t a story about Florida Man. This happened in Amarillo, Texas, this March, but it’s a headline you’d expect to come out of Florida. A driver filmed a man riding an e-scooter at over 65 mph down a busy highway.

E-scooters are everywhere now, especially in big cities, as they’re a quick, convenient, and cheap way to travel. However, like most places, Texas has very strict laws surrounding them. First, Texas considers them as “motor-assisted scooters.”

Therefore, riders must stick to bike lanes or sidewalks and keep their e-scooter speed under 35 mph to protect themselves and pedestrians.

Second, the law allows e-scooter riders to cross roads with speed limits over 35 mph, but prohibits them from riding alone those roads—yet this man clearly violated that rule.

Texas doesn’t require riders to wear a helmet, but he definitely should have been wearing one. Or a jacket to protect his arms, and longer pants to protect his legs. Better shoes would have been smarter, too.

If police caught the e-scooter rider, they could have fined him

Texas laws show that the man violated the e-scooter speed limit ordinance and faced a potential $182 fine for a Class C Misdemeanor.

ABC7 posted the video originally, garnering 167,000 likes and over 30,000 comments. Many of them were anxious to know if he made it to his destination safely.

Many were shocked he was dressed so casually while traveling as quickly as he was.

Viewers said he would be better off on a motorcycle

Viewers were stunned by the video of the speeder. One viewer noted that he was lucky the lane was relatively smooth.

“Until he hits a pebble,” they wrote. “Get a motorcycle, it’s much less dangerous.”

Someone else wrote about a crash they responded to as a former CSI agent.

“I’m a former CSI, and I went to a wreck one time for a guy with a home-built scooter. He put 2 weed-eater engines on it originally and made it to 72 mph. He got scared, so he took 1 engine off but still made it up to around 60 mph,” they wrote. “He was zipping through his neighborhood at about 40-50 mph, and the front wheel broke off. He broke both femurs and shattered his pelvis. There were deep gouges in the pavement from the front forks for about 40 feet.”

Another remarked on what he would look like if he fell off the scooter at those speeds.

“He would just end up looking like a red skid mark on the highway,” their comment read.

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