Invalid Carriages!!!!

[TicTac]

To keep my car on the road i have to have it taxed, mot'ed and insured......... To my knowledge (and i might b wrong) but drivers of invalid carriages dont have any of those and yet they all still seem to think that they have more right to be on the road than i do! I should know when an invalid carriage is driving in the middle of the road that he might suddenly want to turn left or stop suddenly to have a chat with a passing pedestrian!!!!!!! Whilst i appreciate the people who drive these carriages find them an invaluable way of getting around and without them probably wouldnt be able to get out but couldnt just some of them have a little bit of courtesy and common sense when they are on the roads????

On the amusing side tho a guy in a invalid carriage was up pod the other weekend and after spending an hour or so in the bar he decided to attempt 40ft in it!!!!! guess wot???? he didnt get very far and was most annoyed when minty turned up laughing to tow him out!!!!!!!

Does anyone else find invalid carriages annoying????

[diggerdog36]

Not just annoting but damn right dangerous, my bro in law attended the metro for an old guy in an invalid carriage, when the doors opened on the platform, he boarded the metro and smashed though the doors on the other side straight down onto the tracks!!  If another metro had come he would be dead.  I also heard on radio 2 about a woman in a queue in a shop that got ran over and killed by one.  Most of them only have them because they are lazy!!!

I they want one they should have to take some sort of test, and carry insurance atleast!

[lee celtic]

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If it's the first one then yes they do annoy me as I have been run over twice with them while shopping and nearly crashed more than once because an old girl in the village insists on going down the middle of the high street on one ...

the blue ones however are cool

a mate bought three of them from a gov auction when we were about 16 and we used to race them around a dirt track behind his house :lol: :lol:

[diggerdog36]

DONT GET ME STARTED

[TicTac]

are we talking....



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If it's the first one then yes they do annoy me as I have been run over twice with them while shopping and nearly crashed more than once because an old girl in the village insists on going down the middle of the high street on one ...

the blue ones however are cool

a mate bought three of them from a gov auction when we were about 16 and we used to race them around a dirt track behind his house :lol: :lol:

Its the first one.......................    and why do they have their dogs trotting beside them in the road on extending leads that they believe should be at their fullest extent!!!!!!!

[Disco Matt]

I saw one using a pedestrian crossing today. I rather thought those were for people on foot?

If it's motorised, it shouldn't be on the pavement. Electric wheelchairs I can tolerate but mobility scooters just seem to bring a certain mindset. I recall encountering one a while ago where the rider beeped at me rather than just saying "excuse me" or "look out". I thought that was very revealing in psychological terms - he clearly felt insulated from the world around him to the extent that he'd rather use an electric buzzer than a cheery word to communicate.

[ben_haynes]

yes we have one who thinks she is a stunt Granny

jumping off cerbs and poping on to 2 wheels going round corners, and ramming people who walk too slowly

[hobbit]

My wife needs one uses one of these, believe it or not cetain types of the buggies can hold a tax dic and be driven on the road!

Yes they can be a pain, but not all are like this in there behaviour, like all walks of life, if you cant drive or walk far, how would you get about?

Its like a lot of things, no way would the wife drive hers on the road, even though she could

People are quite ignorant on these things from both sides, pedestrians and users, you dont need any training to use one of these things, and yes they can cause nasty injuries, the one my wife has weight 100kg, plus her weight, so can cause problems, but she is careful what she does, which includes having to reverse round people who just stand there

Another thing I wasn't going to mention this, but my wife will no longer take her's out on her own anymore, because of the abuse she gets from , drivers, people and kids about her on it, including kids wanting her go get off so they can ride it, vehicles parking on pavements, and she is too scared to take the thing on the road to go round these vehicles

[TicTac]

No offence meant hobbit, like i said i know a lot of people find mobility scooters a must when it comes to getting about.

Just as irresponsible and ill mannered off roaders give the rest of us a bad press i think the same can also be applied to those in mobility scooters and i can only judge by the majority of the 80year old hooligans i have seen around where i live.

[bravo669]

theres several round here, ive nearly had one that was in the middle of the road in the pouring rain near midnight on a country lane!!!brilliant !!!

[bilge rat]

the outlaw has one , and they are good for what they are intended. i do find though ive nearly been hit by them in town because they are so quite you just dont hear them coming .

[graham]

My wife uses a mobility scooter she has MS can't walk very far, unfortunately as has been shown in this thread people don't like them or understand the needs of the disabled, if you ride them on the road its wrong, if you ride them on the pavement its wrong. maybe they should all stay at home then all able bodied people can get along without being inconvenienced.
Yes parking on pavements or on drop curbs seems to be the norm.  :roll: