Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has any plans to review the Use of Invalid Carriages on Highways Regulations 1988 because of the increase in the use of mobility scooters since 1988.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Government have no current plans to amend the use of Invalid Carriages on Highways regulations 1988. This is a matter that the Government will keep under review.
Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving mobility scooters have been recorded in each year since 2013.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department introduced the collection of data on personal injury road accidents involving motorised mobility scooters in 2011. Since 2013, the number of reported accidents involving mobility scooters has increased, as below. However, the number of police forces collecting information about accidents involving these vehicles has also increased in each year surveyed.
In order to set the data below into context, the table thus shows both the number of forces collecting the data, and the number of recorded accidents from these forces.
Reported accidents of all severities involving mobility scooters, Great Britain, 2013 to 2016 | ||
Year | Number of accidents recorded | Number of police forces collecting |
2013 | 156 | 21 |
2014 | 208 | 22 |
2015 | 222 | 29 |
2016 | 260 | 36 |