Guest 2077- Registered: 4 May 2017
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#1
Why are there so many mobility scooters in Dover?, I think I should be given one. I have no issue with people that generally need them but I think a few people are just lazy.
I'm not going to move in to the road so you can get past me, when I go shopping I have got to watch out for trolleys and also getting run over? You may have issues with your legs so that means your bags also need packing for you now too?
Maybe the local police should watch a few of them coming out of pubs too, they can walk around the pub fine, get on a scooter, that's drunk in charge of a carriage.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#2
Just because you can walk a little way that does not mean you can walk more than a few yards.
Just to cheer you up I will soon be buying a mobility scooter so I can get out more than the once or twice a week which is all I can manage at the moment as I do not have a car.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,948
#3
Dover town's a dangerous place where mobility scooters abound,
Driven by many poor souls some with legs that don't reach the ground,
They never asked to lose limbs or have problems uphill with breathing,
But to some their plight is not seen and leaves selfish one's seething.
'Some walk around inside pubs alright but need to ride when they leave,'
Perhaps they are mobile taking short steps and use an inhaler to breathe,
Maybe they should stagger out drunk with those that claim to be normal?
This gross violation, with shortage of police, could need vigilantes informal!
Imagine the world where all our opinions are based on our first sight,
Because many times we could dig deeper and then discover their plight,
Perhaps some people with problems, striving to live as best they can,
Not wishing to be housebound or try the patience of their fellow man.
Granted some riders may appear more mobile, the world has it's scams,
But sometimes, just sometimes, there are those that need helping hands.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
hare you are bob you old chuckle bunny.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#5
A lady who lived over the road to me used to go out on the bus 6 days a week with a friend to have lunch in town. She was starting to struggle so sold her house and moved into sheltered housing on the old paper mill site. I suggested that she buy a mobility scooter with all the money she had over but would have nothing of it.
Watches telly all day, each to their own I suppose.
Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
- Posts: 342
#6
I have to use a mobility scooteras I am very unsafe walking I woukd fall over,So I have one from quingo on a cntract hire,But when you show interest in any of the models they send someone to you,& take you out for a test drive & to pass a little test,I think if you use one iy=t is a help if you have driven a car before. I try to be very carful going along the road ,because it is so quite the people walking can't hear you coming up behind,so I would slow right down or stop,if someone get in the way.
I must say it is a god send for me I live on tp of a big hill so walking is out of the question
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
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I hope I don't need one but, if I did, I'd like something iconic-looking, along the lines of an Austin J40. Alternatively, if they have to remain scooter-looking, then one with shedloads of wingmirrors, a tiger tail on a whip aerial and Meatloaf Bat out of Hell transfers.
And lots of chrome.
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Button wrote:I hope I don't need one but, if I did, I'd like something iconic-looking, along the lines of an Austin J40. Alternatively, if they have to remain scooter-looking, then one with shedloads of wingmirrors, a tiger tail on a whip aerial and Meatloaf Bat out of Hell transfers.
And lots of chrome.
A bit wide for pavement mobility Button.........you could always fit your own selection of vanity mirrors if you must preen as you drive!
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#9
Just to cheer up the ThinGreyMan.
I arranged for delivery of mine this morning from the disability shop up London Road. I found the gentleman in there very helpful, no hard sell and together with competitive price I can definitely recommend him.
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
#10
If you purchase a mobility scooter for your needs, as Quote 6 says someone comes out and assess you to make sure you can cope, also if you have one that goes on the road these are taxed and should also be insured, so that if you sell or exchange DVLA has to be notified
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
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Sheila Amos wrote:If you purchase a mobility scooter for your needs, as Quote 6 says someone comes out and assess you to make sure you can cope, also if you have one that goes on the road these are taxed and should also be insured, so that if you sell or exchange DVLA has to be notified
No mobility scooter is taxed and there is no legal requirements for insurance, only class 3(those for use on the road) mobility scooters need to be registered with the DVLA and should be highway code compliant (lights horn etc.).
Anyone over the age of 14 can legally buy and use a mobility scooter with no formal assessment or training. Liability insurance would be a sensible precaution though.
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Captain Haddock
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#12
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
#13
Reginald Barrington, I beg to differ regarding DVLA , right up until the tax discs were taken away from cars etc, my mobility scooter always displayed a disc, sent to me from DVLA, even now I get letters stating if I sell or exchange my vehicle I have to send registration documents ect back to DVLA , with the information of whom it was sold to, or exchanged with. Insurance wise, it is advisable to be insured, if you were to hit somebody and hurt them, then they can sue you, that is what I have always been told and advised
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
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Agree whole heartedly regarding insurance Sheila, regarding the tax disc, it was to be displayed to show the vehicle was registered with the DVLA but you didn't have to pay tax to receive it. But again it is only a requirement for the road going scooters not the pavement going ones, though i think all mobility scooters should have a requirement for a competency test and compulsory insurance but that would probably be called discrimination!
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#15
Who would check?So many dont even bother to tax or insure a car and will often get away with it as theres just not enough ol bill to enforce these laws.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
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Andy B wrote:Who would check?So many dont even bother to tax or insure a car and will often get away with it as theres just not enough ol bill to enforce these laws.
So true!
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 595
#17
mobility scooters get blamed for a lot of incidents, and its not the drivers fault, I have been on my scooter seen a pedestrian coming toward me, head down texting on a phone, I have purposely stopped and they have come straight into me, then shouted abuse I should get out the way. I go on road and pavement, when on road, am aware of traffic, pull in when needs arise in nearest space, then get shouted at to get off the road, shouldn't be on it, very well then if not allowed on road do not park your cars on the pavements so we can drive on the paths
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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..............Short cut to the shops!
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