Flat battery leaves amputee stranded

Amputee David Watts had to be rescued by Wiltshire Air Ambulance when his new mobility scooter broke down on a cycle path between Chippenham and Lacock.
The 53-year-old from Little Englands had rented the scooter for only six days when it's battery died along the isolated path two miles from his home last Wednesday.

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Wheelchair-bound pregnant woman bashed

A Perth man who bashed, kicked and stabbed his pregnant, wheelchair-bound de facto wife has been remanded in custody......

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Don't drive your wheelchair at night!!

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PENSIONER Brian Rapley suffers so badly with arthritis that he can hardly walk.

And yet the 79-year-old, who is known as Basil, has been prosecuted for driving his mobility scooter at night.

The arthritic Army veteran was arrested on September 25, 2006, when police officers found him driving his electric mobility scooter along the middle of Manchester Road at 11pm with no lights on.

Another tax on the disabled!

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The popular mobility scooter, which has given many elderly and disabled people a new lease of life, has fallen prey to an EU-imposed tax, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.


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Vanity strikes again!

In increasing numbers, Las Vegas tourists exhausted by the four miles of gluttony laid out before them are getting around on electric mobility scooters.



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