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Cycling to work today, spotted the most bizarre traffic collision.
While two lanes of busy traffic were driving out of a city centre, I watched a mobility scooter drive from off the pavement, into the road hitting a moped rider, which had them face planting in the middle of the road!
Then the mobility scooter swerved past the second lane of cars, causing them to stop suddenly and then drove onto the other side of the highway over the other two lanes of traffic and made his getaway, without stopping!
I stopped to help the face planted moped rider, who's first words were 'what the F@@@ hit me' I tried not to laugh when I told him.
Its a dangerous world out there folks, take care..
🙂
least it sounds like the moped rider was unhurt.
so i can laugh without feeling guilty.
I hope they got caught!
Was it that wrinkly chain-smoking one out of Benidorm?
I was amazed the scooter made it past 4 lanes of traffic, far better Jedi skill than me, first thing in the morning 😉
saw a motobility scooter do the same thing in front of a milk float once, though in this case the motobility went over everyone was unhurt but the old giffer on the scooter refused to accept blame
Out of interest, is there any form of training / licensing required to use one of these on the roads?
bloody menace those things, always hitting people/things.
occasionally with comic reasults;
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Coyote - No. Dealers should train them, but I don't think they HAVE to and there's LOADS of used ones about.
Coyote - MemberOut of interest, is there any form of training / licensing required to use one of these on the roads?
dont pay road tax, no insurance, no helmet,ride on the pavements- hangings to good for 'em
google images search for 'mobility scooter accident' brings up loads of incidents.
Oh gawd, not this again.....expect some telling offs gents...
[i]expect some telling offs gents[/i]
who from?
I thought they were now used exclusively for the personal transportation of lazy, morbidly obese biffers, with nowt up with 'em?
marcus7 - MemberOh gawd, not this again.....expect some telling offs gents...
Opps, did not know mobility scooters were on the ban list here, last thing I need is another ban on here 😉
Are their drivers fat because they use a scooter or need a scooter because they're fat? 😆
I thought they were now used exclusively for the personal transportation of lazy, morbidly obese biffers, with nowt up with 'em?
Are their drivers fat because they use a scooter or need a scooter because they're fat?
Good points. Maybe we need to conduct some scientific research, bit like the Japanese do. Do you need special permission to hunt land whales?
From people who have come on here in the past with regard to this subject (set up accounts spcifically) and had a go about people taking a rise out of the subject of mobility scooters. I dont really care myself but i remeber the last time this came up!.
the old boy (90+) who used to live opposite me used to ride his mobility scooter to the country club every day for his lunchtime pint.
I used to see him weaving around going the wrong way on the dual carriageway - he lived a charmed life - never seemed to sleep, no wife to worry about, staple diet of fags, Stella and 80 bob.
My late sister used to go out on one of these when she was ill and extremely depressed with MS. Seeing her wobbling along Limb Lane, a narrow road used as a nasty commuter rat-run to her village of Dore outside Sheffield, you could easily form the idea that she was tired of life and willing some driver to wipe her out. Her health visitor had already gone around the house to make sure nothing dangerous like paracetamol was within her reach. I wonder how many chronically-ill scooter users have become reckless in the half hope that something sudden and painless might happen to them?
She was funny when she came across cars parked on the pavement though - she used to line up the handlebars and scrape them all down the side of the car while muttering "serves 'em effin' right!"
Not really funny. I can't imagine that a driver that has hit someone who wanted to end their life comes out of it feeling good. I know a few train drivers who've ended up with people sprayed across the front of their train. Potentially career ending psycologically!