Although you can buy trailers designed to be towed behind mobility scooters, they are not legal to use on pavements or the road. The Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986 state that so-called invalid carriages are not entitled to tow trailers of any type.
The ban appears to be another example of mobility scooter users being discriminated against. For example, two-seater mobility scooters are no different from a conventional driver-only model, other than their stretched chassis and additional seat. And yet, tandem mobility scooters are not legal to use on UK roads or pavements.
It’s not as if mobility scooters aren’t up to the job of towing trailers. Our Guinness World Record-winning QTvan is a caravan designed to be towed behind a mobility scooter. As you can see from the photo below, we didn’t have any difficulty at all cruising the aisles of our local supermarket.
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Neil Edgar
Once again the disabled are being maginalised, anyone can tow a trailer behind a bicycle, yet we are not allowed to tow behind our mobility scooter. It would improve my quality of life if I could go shopping, and have a small trailer to put it in! Would make me feel human again!
Christine Payne
Law should be changed as there are lot of inconsiderate dangerous non disabled drivers on uk and worldwide roads .
James palmer
TBH I tow my bespoke trailer two foot by two foot for shopping I’m always on pavement as yet I have not been pulled by old bill,it would take a real jobsworth contstable to pull a pensioner over surely they are to busy letting real crooks get off the hook or is it pensioners can’t run fast enough hahaha
Gary Randall
Love your comment James. I am in the process of designing and building a trailer for my mobility scooter. I can do just over 15mph on standard batteries…. lets see a fully loaded copper keep up on foot.