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.

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.