MOBILITY scooters are a godsend for people with a disability, but these electric scooters with chairs on wheels are a potential hazard to people walking on footpaths or pavements.

Today, Wednesday morning, on using the dual pedestrian crossing in Totton across the Ringwood Road, I had to leap out of the way to avoid an elderly man on a speeding electric chair who shouted “look where you are going”. Really?

He was the one using a potentially lethal machine and it should be him to be safe and aware of pedestrians, some of whom have mobility issues of their own.

There is also a woman who has an even bigger machine who drives through the precinct at great speed forcing pedestrians to get out of her way, and for anyone coming out of the shops they would not have a cat in hell’s chance of avoiding her.

These people should accept that they use public footpaths not as a right, but a privilege and go at a pace similar to that of the pedestrians.

I am sure that, were they on foot, they would not rush or run around doing their shopping so why treat their mobility chairs as motor cars.

Maybe they will take heed and address their style of driving in the future.

Just getting my breath back.

Michael Clements

Totton