From: littlelionne@hotmail.com 
  
 On 07/08/2025 11:15, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 > On Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:55:42 +0100, Serena Blanchflower wrote: 
 > 
 >> On 07/08/2025 08:27, Roland Perry wrote: 
 >>> Things like this have been discussed here before, so I should know the 
 >>> answer. But not completely sure. 
 >>> 
 >>> Vehicle in question is a quite small powered wheelchair, the sort with 
 >>> a batteries under the seat. Not a mobility scooter as such. 
 >>> 
 >>> No numberplate, no lights, no wing mirrors, and I'm not sure what they 
 >>> have as brakes. 
 >>> 
 >>> Anyway I encountered one yesterday motoring along near the local High 
 >>> Street, just far enough from the kerb to avoid drain covers, but 
 >>> nevertheless very wobbly. Doing about 5mph. 
 >>> 
 >>> I'm a big fan of provisions for manual wheelchairs, and wouldn't expect 
 >>> to push one in the road like that (although presumably it would as 
 >>> legal as walking with or without a wheelbarrow). 
 >>> 
 >>> What does the team think about that powered chair? 
 >> 
 >> No, I'm pretty sure they're in the same category as class 2 mobility 
 >> scooters, which are legal on pavements but not on the road.  I think 
 >> there is an exception though for where there aren't any pavements; in 
 >> that case, they can, legally, be driven on the road. 
 > 
 > Which is more often than it should be thanks to a lack of dropped kerbs 
 > and the existing ones being blocked. 
 > 
  
 I have a small mobility scooter and a couple of weeks ago I was on Epping 
 high 
 street, good pavement, nice dropped kerbs either side of a small access 
 road - 
 one side blocked by some delivery rider's scooter ( or moped as they call 
 them 
 these days).  I wouldn't like to post what my husband said to him when he 
 came 
 out of the shop. 
  
 I have ridden on the road for short stretches but not roads like that one, 
 just 
 residential. 
  
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