Mobility Scooters: Accidents
The question
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
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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