Electric Bicycles
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will update section 35 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 to include the dangerous use of illegal e-bicycles.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The government is making our streets safer, by introducing new cycling offences to tackle those rare instances where victims have been killed or seriously injured by irresponsible cyclist behaviour.
This will ensure that all road users, whose behaviour results in the death or serious injury of another road user will face the same penalties.
The new offences will apply to legal e-bikes. Illegal e-bikes are classed as motor vehicles, and so the existing offences of causing death or serious injury by dangerous or careless driving, as well as section 35 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, already apply to them.
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