{"id":318503,"date":"2026-02-26T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318503\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:29:09","slug":"gardai-stop-child-8-travelling-at-speeds-of-up-to-30km-h-on-e-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/318503\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed stop child, 8, travelling at speeds of up to 30km\/h on e-scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An e-scooter in a child&#8217;s hands can turn a minute of fun into a lifetime of sorrow.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was the warning from garda\u00ed after an eight-year-old was seen travelling at speeds of up to 30km\/h in Co Louth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Whilst on patrol on Tuesday evening, garda\u00ed observed the young child in charge of the device in Dundalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The child was stopped and spoken to, only for garda\u00ed to establish that they were eight years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The scooter was seized, and garda\u00ed spoke to the child&#8217;s parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed don&#8217;t want to be seen as killjoys, but we cannot sit back and watch people (especially kids) be put in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; garda\u00ed said in a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;E-scooters that comply with regulations should only be used by persons over 16, and we would encourage users to wear appropriate safety gear and ensure lights are working.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;An e-scooter in a child&#8217;s hands can turn a minute of fun into a lifetime of sorrow.&#8221;\u00a0 That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-318503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}