华盛顿警方启动电动自行车与电动滑板车安全宣传 全市交通死亡人数同比上升62%
华盛顿——华盛顿特区大都会警察局（Metropolitan Police Department，MPD）宣布，自10月16日起至今年年底，全市各警区的街道安全宣传将重点面向电动自行车与电动滑板车骑行者；其中U Street Corridor、Navy Yard与Gallery Place-Chinatown一带因这类车辆集中，将加强宣传。
MPD表示，今年以来华盛顿的交通死亡人数较去年同期上升62%。据MPD向本地媒体提供的数据，今年已有6人死于涉及电动自行车与电动滑板车的碰撞，其中4人涉及电动自行车、2人涉及电动滑板车。就在这次专项宣传启动前一周，一名特区政府工作人员在一次电动滑板车碰撞中丧生。
MPD临时警察局长Jeffery W. Carroll表示：「我们希望每个人都理解道路规则、把安全放在首位。无论是步行、开车还是骑行，我们都有责任彼此保护，让我们的街道与人行道保持安全。」警方提醒骑行者顺着车流方向骑行、礼让行人、遵守交通标志与信号、在中央商业区不得在人行道上骑行、一辆车只限一人骑乘，并建议佩戴头盔、穿着醒目衣物、使用手势信号、骑行时不要佩戴耳机。
DC Police Launch E-Bike and E-Scooter Safety Outreach as Traffic Fatalities Rise 62%
WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced that, beginning October 16 and continuing through the end of the year, its street-safety outreach across all patrol districts will focus on e-bike and e-scooter riders, with increased efforts in areas with high concentrations of the devices, including the U Street Corridor, Navy Yard and Gallery Place-Chinatown.
MPD said traffic fatalities in the District have risen 62% so far this year compared with the same period last year. According to figures MPD provided to local media, six people have died this year in collisions involving e-bikes and e-scooters — four involving e-bikes and two involving e-scooters. One week before the initiative launched, a District government worker was killed in an e-scooter collision.
"We want to ensure everyone understands the rules of the road and makes safety a priority," said Interim Chief of Police Jeffery W. Carroll. "Whether you walk, drive, or ride, we all have a responsibility to protect one another and keep our streets and sidewalks safe." MPD reminded riders to travel with the flow of traffic, yield to pedestrians, follow posted signs and signals, stay off sidewalks in the Central Business District, and carry only one rider per device, and urged riders to wear helmets and bright clothing, use hand signals and avoid wearing earphones while riding.
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图片来源：图：华盛顿Foggy Bottom街头的一辆Lime共享电动滑板车。照片：OhanaSurf，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。Photo: A Lime e-scooter in Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC. Photo by OhanaSurf, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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