Mobility Scooters: Accidents

(asked on 12th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of casualties involving mobility scooters.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 17th June 2025

The table below shows the number of casualties, split by casualty severity, that resulted from road injury collisions involving at least one mobility scooter in Great Britain, for the most recent ten-year period that data is available for.

It should be noted that these figures include all casualties from collisions involving at least one mobility scooter. The casualties may be the mobility scooter users themselves, other road users, or pedestrians. There may also be other vehicles involved in the collision.

Year

Killed

Seriously Injured

Slightly Injured

2014

9

60

149

2015

8

60

159

2016

14

68

185

2017

5

59

182

2018

13

74

172

2019

12

58

192

2020

2

55

139

2021

8

84

219

2022

9

101

239

2023

17

94

229

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