OVER the last week or so I have seen some Mobility Scooters users using roads instead of the pavements they should be using. There are two classes of Mobility Scooters, class 2 and class 3. By law, class 2 scooters are pavement only scooters, class 2 Mobility Scooters can only go at a top speed of 4mph.

The only reasons a class 2 Mobility Scooter is allowed to use the road is: to cross a road to get to the other side, if there is no pavement. There is another reason, which is not a law that I know about but I do it anyway is if there is a dropped kerb onto a pavement but you know that there is not a dropped kerb at the other end to let you down off that dropped kerb safely, in that circumstance I would use the road if it was safe to do so.

I have seen a number of class 2 Mobility Scooters (you can tell they were class 2 Mobility Scooters they were very small scooters, they looked more like foldable machines which are also class 2 Mobility Scooters) using the road instead of a pavement which would have been OK if the pavement was not accessible at both ends, but I have used this pavement myself on my scooter and I know it is accessible at both ends of it or I would not be writing this letter. If people wish to use the road on their scooter, they can if they use class 3 Mobility Scooters. A class 3 Mobility Scooter’s maximum speed is 8mph and is road legal (it must be road taxed, it`s free so there is no excuse). Class 3 Mobility Scooters should also have low and high speed settings, the high setting is for road only use, the low is for pavement only use, so getting a class 3 Mobility Scooter cover both. There is a section in the highway code which covers Mobility Scooters which users should read.

I was on my scooter outside the Bank Street Co-op heading towards Rosewell Pharmacy last week when I was overtaken by another Mobility Scooter user.

The person looked like they were going within the legal speed limited for the pavement which was fine, but then the person came up to a group of people walking up the pavement. It looked like the person got so close to the rear of these people I would not have been surprised if they had clipped some of the people’s heels (I hope the scooter user has insurance). No wonder Mobility Scooter users can get a bad name.

I think it`s about time the police started enforcing the laws pertaining to the use of mobility scooters.

ROBERT A HUNTER, Watters Crescent, Lochgelly.