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Southwark council were fined £20,000 back in October when a man fell from the tail lift of the bus he was entering on his mobility scooter.

The HSE are urging all service providers to keep alert and to have correct procedures in place when loading and unloading wheelchairs and scooters onto ambulances and busses etc. According to the HSE web site, “The court heard that on 20 September 2006, a trip to an exhibition had been organised for people attending the Aylesbury Day Centre, which is run by the Council. As the group was preparing to

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return from the exhibition, they were being loaded into a welfare bus via a tail lift at the rear.

One of the group, William Delaney, 67, from Southwark was using a motorised scooter and was being loaded into the bus. Whilst on the raised tail lift, his scooter came off the back and fell to the ground. He died from head injuries sustained in the fall.”

The HSE used its full force in this case because just months earlier, they had released field safety notices regarding this type of operation which was not put into force.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2009/coildn1440.htm