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Written Question · S7W-00035 · Session 7

How many road traffic collisions involving electric scooters, electric bikes and pedestrians there have been in each year since 2016.

Answered Asked by David Linden SNP Lodged 14 May 2026

The question

To ask the Scottish Government how many road traffic collisions involving electric scooters, electric bikes and pedestrians there have been in each year since 2016.

The answer

Answered by Stephen Flynn on 29 May 2026 · 15 days after it was lodged, on time

Data on collisions which cause injury and take place on the road network, including adjacent pavements and cycle lanes, is collected by Police Scotland as part of the Great Britain-wide dataset known as STATS19.The following tables provide the number of injury road collisions recorded as involving an e-bike or an e-scooter and pedestrians between 2016 and 2024, the last full year for which we currently have data.E-scooters and e-bikes are not designated vehicle types collected within STATS19, and as such they can only be identified using free-text fields which capture other vehicles and similar. This is likely to represent an incomplete record of e-bikes in particular, as it is not always possible to identify where e-bikes may have been recorded as bicycle or electric motorcycle, which are both designated vehicle types.Transport Scotland is currently part of a working group led by the Department for Transport, which is considering how the collection of injury road collision data for different vehicle types, and for e-bikes in particular, can be improved.Number of injury road collisions involving e-bikes and pedestriansYearNumber201602017020180201902020020211202202023020241Number of injury road collisions involving e-scooters and pedestriansYearNumber201602017020180201902020020211202212023420241

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S7W-00035 by reference.