Travel safety is important whether you have mobility problems or not, but it’s even more important when you use something like a cane, crutch, wheelchair or scooter. Because you may have more difficulty removing yourself from a suspicious situation, you need to take extra precautions to keep your things, and most importantly yourself, safe.

Southern Florida, New Orleans, Hollywood and the Bahamas are some of the most traveled places in the world, and for good reason. Beautiful weather and hundreds of things to do add up to a great vacation destination. But local criminals in these places and in other heavily visited places like Paris, New York and Jamaica keep an eye out for tourists just so they can steal from them. There are pickpockets to watch out for – those crafty criminals that steal from you without you even knowing – and then there are those who might simply stop you and demand you turn over your possessions. Both kinds are dangerous and a risk to you and your property.

Don’t worry about these things unnecessarily when vacationing with your mobility scooter. Just be aware they exist, and take every precaution you can against them.

A bag that goes on the front of your scooter is handy, as is an armrest bag, because you have easy access to your things. The problem is that if you have easy access, so does everyone else. Notoriously high tourism areas also suffer from high rates of crimes against tourists, and pickpocketing, purse-snatching and any kind of grab and go thefts are some of the most common crimes. If you have valuables, your passport, your cash or other items in an easily accessed bag, those items are at risk of disappearing.

Choose an underseat glove box compartment instead. You’ll know where your items are and you’ll be able to get to them if you need them, but they’re not in the open where someone can grab and run. Use tiller bags and armrest bags for things you could do without if they disappeared. They’re handy places for a map that you refer to often, a schedule, a cell phone or GPS that you’re using, a bottle of water or a snack. But keep anything important where it can’t be easily shuffled away.

A good rule of thumb when traveling is to never take anything you can’t afford to lose. This applies very well to traveling with a mobility scooter. If something is so precious to you that you don’t know what you’d do without it, don’t carry it on you when you’re out and about. If someone is intent on robbing you, they may find things you’ve hidden away in an underseat compartment, or decide to take the entire scooter.

And never leave your scooter unattended for even a moment. Even if the scooter’s still there when you go back, you could find that everything you had stored on it is gone. While theft isn’t a certainty by any means, it’s important to realize that it’s possible. Leave your valuables behind when you’re out on your mobility scooter and remember that everything you have with you, including the scooter, can be replaced – but you can’t.

Author Bio: Brad Brubaker is a technical writer for online retailers of mobility equipment and medical supplies. For more information on travel scooters and discreet underseat storage for your valuables, visit All Electric Scooters.

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