Electric Scooter Seizures 2020 to 2024
Keywords
Electric, E-Scooter, Scooter, Confiscations, Seizures, Government, Department, Transport, DfT, Designated, Hire, Legal, Trail, Area, Country, Essex, Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester, Highways, Spin.
Publication Number
PUB 1357
Publication Statement
Please note that this information is correct as at 14 May 2024 and may be subject to change.
As with all publications of information by Essex Police, please note caveats may apply regarding the accuracy of data.
Title
Electric Scooter Seizures 2020 to 2024
Date Range
January 2020 to April 2024
Background Information
The Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has made orders that only designated hire scooters are legal during trial periods and in specific trial areas. Trials have been run across the country in various locations. Any E-Scooters used anywhere other than the trial areas remain illegal (unless used on private land).
For Essex, trials have taken place in the defined areas of Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford and Colchester. As part of their Safer Greener Healthier Campaign, Essex Highways are working with Spin on the Electric E-Scooter trials.
Essex Police work with Essex Highways closely through the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP). SERP comprises Essex Police, Essex County Council, Southend-On-Sea Borough Council, Thurrock Council, Essex Fire and Rescue Services, Highways England and Essex and Hearts Air Ambulance Trust.
Related Documents/Links
E-Scooter Injury Statistics 2019 to 2022
Stops, Seizures and Prosecutions for Riding E-Scooters 2019 to 2022
Criminal offences where suspect Is riding an e-scooter
Electronic Scooter Incidents/Seizures/Offences
FOI Publication
Listed below are the number of Electric Scooter seizures from 01 January 2020 to 30 April 2024 broken down by month:
Note: There were 0 (Zero) Electric Scooter seizures between January 2018 and December 2019.
| Month / Year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| January | 0 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| February | 0 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 10 |
| March | 0 | 42 | 18 | 9 | 7 |
| April | 0 | 27 | 10 | 8 | 7 |
| May | 0 | 24 | 21 | 14 | |
| June | 0 | 25 | 26 | 14 | |
| July | 1 | 33 | 27 | 14 | |
| August | 7 | 35 | 21 | 7 | |
| September | 2 | 16 | 46 | 13 | |
| October | 5 | 29 | 27 | 12 | |
| November | 7 | 27 | 9 | 11 | |
| December | 16 | 8 | 9 | 11 | |
| Total | 38 | 307 | 244 | 122 | 31 |
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.