Source: Department of Transport

The UK’s Department of Transport has published its factsheet providing an estimated number of personal injury road traffic collisions involving e-scooters, using the STATS19 reporting system.

The UK’s Department of Transport’s factsheet has listed its official data for 2023 which details e-scooter road accidents that were reported by the police up until September 2024.

Its main findings compared to the 2022 data were:

• There were fewer collisions involving e-scooters, 1,292 in 2023, compared to 1,411 in 2022 respectively. Of these findings, there were 284 single-vehicle collisions (no other vehicles involved) compared to 347 in 2022.
• There were fewer casualties from collisions which involved e-scooters, 1,387 casualties in 2023, down from 1,502 in 2022.
• Fewer people were killed from collisions that involved e-scooters, 6 were killed in 2023 (all of whom were scooter riders), compared to 12 deaths in 2022.
• Fewer injuries – With changes in injury reporting by the police, the Department of Transport has estimated that in 2023, 416 were seriously injured and 965 were slightly injured from collisions involving electric scooters, compared to 441 and 1,049 in 2022.

The 2023 factsheet also provides full numbers and graphs on reported collisions and casualties involving e-scooters with breakdowns on age, gender, time of day, police force geographical area,e-scooter trial areas and types of injuries reported.