Electric Scooters: Safety
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the sale of private e-scooters on public safety.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
Privately owned e-scooters cannot be legally ridden either on roads or on pavements. Enforcement of illegal and/or irresponsible e-scooter use is a matter for the police. Users can face fines and fixed penalty notices, criminal prosecution, points on their driving licence, and have their e-scooter impounded.
Statistics on road collisions are collected via data reported to the Department by police forces. Provisionally, there were an estimated 1,194 casualties in collisions involving private or rental e-scooters in year ending June 2024, compared to 1,413 in the year ending June 2023.
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