Electric Scooters: Accidents

(asked on 1st November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) deaths and (2) injuries can be attributed to e-scooters in England, broken down by whether the accident was caused by (a) the users of e-scooters, (b) pedestrians, and (c) others.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 9th November 2021

There was 1 fatality, and 473 injured casualties in reported road accidents involving at least one e-scooter vehicle in England in 2020.

The Department does not hold information which can be used to assign blame for the cause of the accident onto a specific road user or vehicle.

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