Where are Marbella police? Electric scooter filmed at 100 km/h on A-7

A bizarre electric scooter sighting on the A-7 near Marbella has prompted the latest round of the increasingly familiar question: where are Marbella police?

Video circulating on social media appears to show a man riding an electric scooter on the busy motorway towards Malaga, without a helmet and travelling at an extraordinary speed.

The footage, shared by Fuengirolasequeja, shows the scooter moving through traffic while the driver recording the incident displays his car’s speedometer at around 100 km/h.

That does not independently prove that the scooter itself was travelling at exactly 100 km/h. However, the footage gives a clear indication of the extraordinary speed at which the rider was keeping up with traffic.

Blatant flaunting of basic laws

More importantly, the journey itself appears to break some very basic Spanish traffic rules.

According to Spain’s DGT, electric scooters classed as personal mobility vehicles (VMPs) have a maximum design speed of 25 km/h and are prohibited from using motorways, autovias and other roads between towns.

New national regulations approved this year will also make helmets compulsory for scooter users from October 1, 2026, with failing to wear one treated as a serious offence carrying a €200 fine.

Marbella already has its own VMP regulations, with the town hall warning that infringements can result in fines ranging from €200 to €1,000.

Another in long line of law breaking

The remarkable footage is not even the first time such behaviour has been reported on the Marbella section of the A-7. In June 2022, another video showed an electric scooter overtaking a vehicle travelling at almost 100 km/h on an autovia in Marbella. At the time, Spanish media reported that the scooter appeared to be travelling at an illegal speed and raised questions about whether such a vehicle could even be classified as a VMP.

Now the latest footage is circulating again, leaving social media users asking the obvious question: where are Marbella police?