A Massachusetts man who said he drove from Massachusetts to Maine on a motorized scooter was stopped early Friday morning in Kittery, Maine, by police who saw him using his cellphone as a headlight, police said.
Maine State Police Trooper Scott Harakles stopped the 26-year-old Fairhaven man at about 1:22 a.m. on the Maine Turnpike after seeing that the headlights on the man’s scooter were not turned on. The man had been using the light from his phone to illuminate the road in front of him, police said in a Facebook post.
After pulling him over, Harakles found that the man, who said he had started his drive in New Bedford, did not have a valid driver’s license and that his scooter was not registered, the post said.
“Thankfully, he was stopped after traveling only a couple miles into Maine as he was very difficult to see at night without lights,” the post said.
Mopeds and motorized scooters are not allowed on interstate highways, including the Maine Turnpike, or on any road on which bicycles are prohibited, the post said.
The driver was summonsed for operating without a license and operating an unregistered vehicle. He was given a warning for using a scooter on the turnpike, the post said. The scooter was towed and troopers gave the man a ride to his destination, about 70 miles away.
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