Bedford Driving Lessons

For anyone who’s had to leap out of the way of a passing mobility scooter, it’s the stuff of nightmares. Colin Furze has adapted a conventional electric model into a petrol-engined speedster which has reached an astonishing 69mph. ‘You hear people complaining about scooters going slowly around supermarkets and blocking aisles so I thought it would be a laugh to make a really fast one,’ said Mr Furze, 31, a plumber from Stamford, Lincolnshire. Guinness World Records said he would be considered for the first mobility scooter speed record if he could hit 100kph – 61.4mph. He is now planning a time trial at the Santa Pod Raceway in Northamptonshire to claim his place in the record books, and says: ‘My aim is to hit 70mph.’ More