Invalid Vehicles: Accidents

(asked on 9th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents were reported involving mobility scooters in 2014.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 14th October 2015

The Department introduced the collection of data on personal injury road accidents involving motorised mobility scooters in 2011. A total of 29 out of 44 police forces supplied data in 2014. Across these forces, the number of reported personal injury road accidents involving mobility scooters in 2014 is given in the table below.

Number of reported personal injury road accidents involving mobility scooters: GB, 2014

Severity

2014 (1)

Fatal

9

Serious

46

Slight

153

All severities

208

(1) Date from 29 out of 44 police forces

The Department expects that all forces will supply data by the end of 2016.

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