Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
I had to nip the 400 metres or so to Anglia Square here in Norwich on a quick errand, and I have just been knocked down by one mobility scooter, and run over by a second. To make matters worse I was on foot, walking along a 2 metres wide pavement with steel safety rails along the roadside. The two ignorant bitches crept up behind me ... I didn't hear the electric motors, the first one clipped my right leg knocking me down, and the second ran me over while I was on the floor. To make matters worse these weren't the normal little wheeled 3 wheel scooter thingies, but bloody great 4 wheel Galaxy 8's; veritable stretched limos of the scooter world, the Community Support Officer on patrol refused to get involved, and the two bitches refused to give me their details. Although I almost unhurt ... I'm going to have a bruise, and I am absolutely bloody fuming!
It is about high time these bloody things are: Registered, Taxed, Insured with the drivers licenced, and put on the road ... not the pavements; I was knocked down within a few metres of a sign informing cyclists they will be fined £30 for riding on the pavement...... the 4 wheeled Pedal powered vehicles that I have and make, have to be road legal, use the roads and have to be registered, taxed and insured, so why not these bloody self propelled mobility scooters.
It is about high time these bloody things are: Registered, Taxed, Insured with the drivers licenced, and put on the road ... not the pavements; I was knocked down within a few metres of a sign informing cyclists they will be fined £30 for riding on the pavement...... the 4 wheeled Pedal powered vehicles that I have and make, have to be road legal, use the roads and have to be registered, taxed and insured, so why not these bloody self propelled mobility scooters.