To enjoy the
extra freedom your Mobility
Scooter offers it is important
to keep yourself safe.
Following the basic
highway-code rules for
mobility scooters and invalid
carriages reduces any risk in
using all types of mobility or
disability powered
products.
Ten Tips for
Safer
Driving:
- Take care when you
cannot see ahead, such as
when
you are approaching a corner
or when a wall or hedge is
restricting your view.
- Always look out for
pedestrians or other road
users. Pedestrians may not
have seen or heard you.
- Avoid running into
anyone or causing any damage
with your Mobility Scooter by
maintaining control at all
times.
- Wearing a florescent
tabard increases your
visibility to other road
users.
- Avoid busy roads that
are not suitable for Invalid
or Mobility Equipment.
- When passing parked
vehicles look out for doors
opening, similarly when
passing shop or house
doorways
look out for pedestrians
exiting.
- Give way to pedestrians
on crossings.
- Always obey traffic
lights and other road signals,
signs and instructions.
- Keep to the left when
driving on roads.
- When turning right it
is safer to turn onto a
pavement and use a
pedestrian
crossing to cross the road.
Mobility Scooters and
Electric Wheelchairs are a
great way of getting about
when mobility or disability
problems effect your
movement.
There are numerous mobility
products on the market that
can help in keeping you
mobile, whichever one you
choose use safely to stay
safe. |
