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Guests visiting the various Disney Parks properties expect a certain level of safety during their magical experience. While the Walt Disney Company has gone as far as to hire FBI agents for its security and safety departments, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the greatest threat to Disney Park guests insidiously exists within the park experience itself. Forget construction disguised as pixie dust, guests see the real bulldozers as the ECVs at Disney.
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ECV stands for Electric Conveyance Vehicle, AKA a motorized scooter many guests with mobility challenges can rent to get around a theme park more easily. While it’s great that Disney strives to provide an inclusive and accessible experience for all guests, things have definitely gotten out of hand!
Anyone who’s tried to walk down Magic Kingdom’s Main Street, U.S.A. on any given day knows the greatest safety risk to their family at that moment is an ECV-related injury. Just here at Disney Dining, we’ve covered drivers running over other guests, drinking and driving incidents, costly injuries, near misses with children, and more!
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I wish we could write off these incidents as true accidents and unfortunate rarities, but the truth of the matter is that entitlement fuels these issues, not incompetence. Some guests feel a certain sense of unearned priority when driving through a busy Disney Park crowd, wailing on the horn as if in traffic or carelessly sideswiping people in their way.
I have personally seen an ECV drive OVER another Guest who was sitting in the fireworks viewing spot they wanted. Like their whole body! A screaming match ensued, and Cast Members did their best to settle it…but the audacity! Many guests dread interacting with ECV scooters for reasons way tamer than this. As far as we can tell, Disney has no real way of dealing with this issue.
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No one will look down on you if you need a mobility scooter to get around the park. They will, however, judge the heck out of you for using those ECVs at Disney to willingly run over their children.
Have you had or seen a crazy run-in with an electric scooter at a Disney theme park? We want the tea.
