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to think mobility scooters should stay on the pavement unless they are registered and insured

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PRINTMISS Sat 18-Mar-17 16:49:39

Of course they should stay on the footpath, the trouble is of course that speed is limited to (I think) 4 miles per hour on the pavement as it should be, and if you go faster than that then you
can be prosecuted. Some mobility scooters will onlydo the 4 mph I believe, but others more robust are able to reach 8 miles an hour.
The solution is to have mobility scooters which will only reach the 4 mile limit, so that people are not tempted to risk the road when pavements are available. There will always be the odd one of course.

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granfromafar Sat 18-Mar-17 16:42:32

I totally agree with you - surely it is illegal as well as unsafe for them to be on the road. We live in a fairly quiet road where mobility scooter drivers use both the pavement and roads, sometimes even having 1 or 2 dogs on a lead at the same time - now that's really dangerous! If there is no footpath available then there is no alternative apart from driving on the road, but otherwise there is no excuse. Maybe there are some GN users who are also mobility scooter users and they could give us their opinion?

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M0nica Sat 18-Mar-17 14:59:50

This morning I was driving through a small local town; the road was narrow, there was oncoming traffic and, despite the presence of a more than ample well surfaced pavement, traffic was held up by a mobility scooter, hogging the centre of the road and, approaching a roundabout, was failing to give any indication which way he wanted to go when he reached it.

I know there are times when there is a lack of a proper footpath or no path at all, but I still think that if a mobility scooter is going to go on the road, then the driver should be assessed as mentally and physically capable of driving on a public road, and should have a registration number on the vehicle that shows they are insured.

This not the first time I have experienced poor driving by mobility scooter drivers. Last year I was on a coach trip, sitting behind the driver looking out on the road ahead over his head. We were in a deeply rural area going up a steep blind hill behind a mobility scooter, travelling very slowly. As we reached the top and had a clear view so that the coach driver could start to overtake, the mobility scooter suddenly slewed across the road in front of the coach and then briefly waved their right hand to show they wanted to turn right. It was only the coach driver's careful driving that saved the scooter and its driver from being run over.

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