Scooter-Rider Halted After 130 Miles, Used Phone As Light: Police

FAIRHAVEN, MA — A man without a driver's license drove his motorized scooter from almost the southernmost point in Massachusetts to Maine, where he was pulled over for using his cellphone as a headlight, police said.

State Police said they pulled over the 26-year-old Fairhaven man on the Maine Turnpike in Kittery, just north of Portsmouth, N.H., at about 1:22 a.m. Friday. He had driven from New Bedford, MA, police said. That's a roughly 130-mile scooter ride.

Police did not say why the man was traveling across states in the middle of the the night on a scooter, but "his reasons were good enough that the Troopers helped him out," giving him a ride the remaining 70 miles.

The man's scooter was not registered, police said. Scooters aren't allowed on the Maine Turnpike, and the man's was towed.

The man was summonsed for operating without a license and operating an unregistered vehicle. He was also given a warning for using the scooter on the turnpike.

Photos by Maine State Police