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  Msg # 12420 of 12811 on ZZUK4448, Saturday 8-08-25, 1:40  
  From: ROLAND PERRY  
  To: ALL  
  Subj: Re: Are powered wheelchairs road legal  
 From: roland@perry.uk 
  
 In message <9904727111.3fc1123e@uninhabited.net>, at 20:37:27 on Thu, 7 
 Aug 2025, Roger Hayter  remarked: 
  
 >> Class 2 and 3 invalid carriages are motor vehicles. That's why they're 
 >> subject to C&U when used on the carriageway. But they're also one of the 
 >> categories of motor vehicle whch is explicitly permitted by legislation to 
 >> use a footway or cycleway. 
 >> 
 >> Mark 
 > 
 >Glad to be corrected! So powered wheel chairs are motor vehicles. Do you 
 know 
 >where offences for misusing them are found? I also note that using a 
 mobility 
 >scooter when you are not disabled is (with exceptions) also illegal. 
  
 I've seen strapping young lads using them as in effect a powered trolley 
 when delivering leaflets door to door. 
  
 >This offence must be found somewhere. 
  
 -- 
 Roland Perry 
  
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