Mobility Scooter Driving Tips For Healthy, Safe & Mobile Life

Safety is the most important concern for everyone at every stage of life. You always make sure that your loved ones are safe in each situation they face in life. Your concern for them doubles when your loved ones are on a mobility scooter and you always try to help them with your best efforts.

We know you won’t be even a single step back when it comes to looking after your people and taking care of them because no one wants their people to be unsafe from any side, but it’s not in your hand. You can only avoid it by playing safe.

If you really want to play safe, you need to consider the following tips. These points will surely help you to some extent in being safe.

Make a right choice

While shopping for mobility scooters there are various factors you must keep in mind, to not regret about your choice after payment.

It’s not always about the quality but also about your needs, preferences, abilities, etc. You might be thinking that high range is equal to more comfort in mobility scooters. But in this case, there are chances that low range mobility scooter are more comfortable than others because it is made according to your abilities and comfort zone.

So, the best thing you can do to avoid these confusions and regret is you can first consult your doctor who can suggest you the right mobility scooters in which you can manage your balance, strength, and abilities. Your mobility scooter should suit your needs and cover the reasons for which you are buying a mobility scooter.

Practice

Ok! So, you bought your mobility scooter after so much of R&D. Now do not just rush outside in excitement. This might prove dangerous to you as you have still not got that grip on your vehicle.

In starting to go out with someone as you are in a learning stage. As you don’t know at what point you will find difficulties in driving. It may be a right turn, left turn, reverse or any other function of the vehicle which is new or difficult for you.

Go out after you are confident enough to manage your vehicle in any situation and you have had enough practice. Otherwise, there are chances that your mobility scooter can become a reason for your accident instead of helping you to explore.

Always keep check

Your assumptions can be wrong many times. Do not ever go based on your assumptions that your mobility scooter is in good conditions. It’s better to check each function of your scooter every time you leave from home.

Tires, handle, mirror, light and all the other functions of your mobility scooter should be checked before driving it and going out. We know it’s tiring for you to check it again and again but a bit of laziness can prove to be dangerous for you. And safety should come first in any situation.

Be seen

You will think that you should take dark color mobility scooter to be visible in the day time. But do not neglect the night time when more accidents happen because it’s dark outside.

The dark color which is visible in the day time is of no use in the dark. So, fluorescent color stripes or any reflective lights in the scooter can help you to be more visible in dark. These lights should be from both angles to make you visible enough to avoid accidents.

Keep the battery charged

When you know that you are going to travel a long distance in your mobility scooter, you should immediately check its battery. Whether there is enough battery to run the vehicle for those specific hours or not.

If your battery finishes on your half way, you can imagine how irritating it can be. And you cannot go out expecting to be helped in every place you go. There are possibilities that, the place where your battery has been finished is not so posh area.

Keeping your battery full is a very small and basic thing that everyone knows but, we also forget the very basic things at times. So, don’t be so careless to not check your battery level whenever you go out.

Learn the rules

This is a very basic tip among all that everyone knows about and remembers. But we all somehow take it lightly in many situations and increase the chances of getting into trouble for ourselves. This happens mostly when we are getting late.

Like other vehicles, traffic rules also apply to mobility scooters. In fact, mobility scooters are not allowed to go up to a specific speed limit, but people usually forget that. Also, people are not allowed to drive under the influence of alcohol. So, you should know all the rules in deep before you drive.

Respect the weight limit

We know ‘rules are meant to be broken’ but guys! Not when it comes to your safety. While purchasing the mobility scooter, you might have been told about many rules to follow regarding your scooter. Weight limit is one of them which we should consider as an important part but we don’t.

Excess weight on the basket given for keeping your stuff can misbalance your scooter, basket might break or it can affect the steering. This will also reduce the life of your mobility scooter.

Never assume that the person saw you

Assumptions always kill us! We assume certain things which are not actually true and disaster happens. You should never assume that the opposite person saw you and he will drive keeping you in mind. He might not have seen you because he was busy with something else.

Possibilities are there that, he might be busy in adjusting volume or he might be busy concentrating on another vehicle coming his way. So, you should always try to drive safely from your side without being dependent on other’s decision.

Plan your route beforehand

Even if you are a master in all the routes of that area, you should always check before you leave. There might be some roads you do not know about or roads are newly constructed. In that case, you need to check if the route is comfortable for you to travel in a mobility scooter.

Sometimes the roads are too narrow where usually traffic is a big issue and I am sure you do not want to be stuck there. Your mobility scooter cannot go anywhere especially roads with lots of bumps. It can hurt you and it can damage your scooter.

Pedestrian crossing

Like other traffic rules, this rule is an important part to keep in mind while going on a mobility scooter. Even if your stop is just on the opposite side, you should wait and go only by the pedestrian crossing. This will avoid chances of accidents with other vehicles.

If you are good at remembering and you remember all these basic points, I am sure there are very minimal chances of you getting into a trouble. We have covered most all the tips that you should keep in mind to be safer.