Scooter déjà vu

• IN 1972 I was in a 14-bed orthopaedic ward in the old Westminster hospital where I was the only patient who had been knocked off a motorbike, (The scooter isn’t without its problems, October 23).

In 1973 they had the Yom Kippur war and oil almost quadrupled in price, so many people bought small motorbikes.

Then in 1976 I went back to the same ward for a final operation to find that there was only one person who had not been knocked off a motorbike!

Oh, and they had tucked another couple of beds as well. Now, with scooters… déjà vu?

ROBERT LYDDON
St Pauls Road, N1