The Public Security Police (PSP) have announced that they have fined a 20-year-old local man who crashed into the right side of a car travelling past a building when he was skateboarding from the building’s ground-floor passage into the road on Thursday, as his behaviour endangered other road users.
A PSP statement on Friday said that the police had been aware of a video clip circulating on social media showing a male skateboarder crashing into a car.
The statement said that the police confirmed that the case occurred in Rua de António Basto on Thursday afternoon, a one-way street running from Avenida de Sidónio Pais to Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida.
The side gate of Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial House is located on Rua de António Basto.
The statement said that when the 20-year-old was skateboarding in a passage on the ground floor of a residential building on the street, he suddenly darted into the road and then hit the right side of a car driving past.
According to the statement, the skateboarder sustained slight injuries but declined to be taken to hospital for treatment.
The statement said that as his behaviour adversely affected the safety of other road users, the police fined him according to the law.
The skateboarder violated Clause 2 of Article 6 of the Road Traffic Law, according to which public road users are barred from engaging in any acts that obstruct the traffic, affect the safety of other road users, or cause inconvenience to them. Offenders face a fine of 300 patacas.
The PSP statement rebuked the offender for disregarding road safety, adding that every road user should abide by road traffic laws and regulations. The statement urged all road users not to engage in any dangerous acts that adversely affect their and other road users’ safety.
The clip circulating on social media shows another man squatting on the pavement and filming the skateboarder darting into the road from the building’s passage when no vehicles were passing. When the skateboarder once again darted into the road, he crashed into the right side of the car driving past the location at that very moment.
