PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mobility Scooters: Accidents (3 September 2018)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Answer
The Department introduced the collection of data on personal injury road accidents involving motorised mobility scooters in 2011. Since 2013, the number of reported accidents involving mobility scooters has increased, as below. However, the number of police forces collecting information about accidents involving these vehicles has also increased in each year surveyed.
In order to set the data below into context, the table thus shows both the number of forces collecting the data, and the number of recorded accidents from these forces.
Reported accidents of all severities involving mobility scooters, Great Britain, 2013 to 2016 | ||
Year | Number of accidents recorded | Number of police forces collecting |
2013 | 156 | 21 |
2014 | 208 | 22 |
2015 | 222 | 29 |
2016 | 260 | 36 |
Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
11 September 2018
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