Road Traffic Collisions Involving E-Bikes and E-Scooters 2019 to 2024
Publication Number: 1550
FOI Number: 20552
Information Request
Under the FOI Act 2000, please provide the following:
The number of road traffic collisions involving e-scooters and e-bikes for the following periods:
July 26 2019 – July 26 2020
July 26 2020 – July 26 2021
July 26 2021 – July 26 2022
July 26 2022 – July 26 2023
July 26 2023 – July 26 2024
For each period, can you include the number of incidents that resulted in injuries, and the number that resulted in one or more deaths.
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to your request.
Second Duty – See below
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Exemption – Not applicable
Essex Police can report as follows:
Caveat: The information is correct as at 07 August 2024
Note
- The dates are the 26/07 to 26/07 for each year.
- Only Road Traffic Collisions (RTCs) involving an injury are recorded.
Numbers of RTCs Involving an E-Scooter or E-Bike Per Year - July 2019 to July 2024
|
|
Number of RTCs |
Number of RTCs Resulting in an Injury |
Number of RTCs Resulting in a Fatality |
|
July 2019 to July 2020 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
|
July 2020 to July 2021 |
46 |
46 |
0 |
|
July 2021 to July 2022 |
70 |
70 |
1 |
|
July 2022 to July 2023 |
75 |
75 |
0 |
|
July 2023 to July 2024 |
39 |
39 |
0 |
|
Total |
234 |
234 |
1 |
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
General data on RTCs by time, location and injury severity within Essex between 2019 and 2024 is available via the TraffWeb map:
UK wide data for RTCs by time, location, injury severity, casualty type and vehicle type between 1999 to 2022 is available via CrashMap:
The following link may also be of interest to you:
E-Scooter Injury Statistics 2019 to 2022 | Essex Police