As more and more stories accumulate of negative interactions with children riding electric scooters and bicycles on village streets, Oak Lawn is taking action with new regulations.

The village voted 6-0 on Tuesday in favor of updating traffic code to define e-bikes and e-scooters and restrict riders’ ages, motor wattage and riding locations.

“We’ve all experienced some type of incident involving the scooters throughout the village of Oak Lawn,” Mayor Terry Vorderer said Wednesday. He said his own recent experience included a close call with a child on a scooter riding alongside his vehicle in the dark.

“Thank God I caught him out of the corner of my eye, because he had no wherewithal of what he was doing and I slammed on the brakes,” Vorderer said.

Under the ordinance, scooters exceedi

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