Combating Rising Road Fatalities Among Mobility Scooter Users

16 July 2024

Psychologists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have teamed up with Surewise, a leading mobility scooter insurance intermediary, to tackle the alarming increase in deaths and injuries among mobility scooter users on the UK's roads.

This collaboration comes in the wake of alarming statistics revealing that mobility scooter riders are over two and a half times more likely to be killed in a road crash compared to other road users.

In April, Surewise launched its Safer Mobility Campaign  following a detailed analysis of road casualty data. The data revealed a troubling trend: over the last decade, casualties involving mobility scooter users have increased by an average of 20 per cent each year.

The campaign aims to inform mobility scooter users about the risks they face while traveling on or near roads and to raise awareness among all road users about the vulnerability of this group.

Earlier this year, Nottingham Trent University published the findings of the largest-ever study of over 250 motorised mobility scooter users. The study uncovered that around 62% of respondents had not received any form of training.