Life savers or leg breakers?
BBC Magazine reports on the increased use of mobility scooters
bq. For Karen - who is visually-impaired as well as having limited mobility - her Breeze 4 is the next best thing to having a car.
Happiness for her is zipping along the seafront at Hartlepool listening to music on her MP3 player.
Can’t see, can’t hear, but can feel the bumbs as she goes over Hartlepool’s sunbathing community.