Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Death

(asked on 20th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department holds data on how many people have died in collisions involving (a) e-bikes and (b) e-scooters in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 28th October 2026

The number of fatalities in reported road collisions in Great Britain which involved at least one e-scooter are shown in the table for the last 5 years for which data are available.

Figures for e-bikes are not available as there is not a separate category within the STATS19 dataset from which these figures are derived.

Year

Fatalities in collisions involving e-scooter

2021

10

2022

12

2023

6

2024

6

2025

10

Of the 44 people killed in collisions involving an e-scooter, 2 were pedestrians and the remaining 42 were e-scooter users. Of the e-scooter users, 4 were recorded by police as riding rental e-scooters as part of a legal trial. Information on whether anyone was prosecuted or charged following the collision is not recorded within the STATS19 dataset.

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