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Electric Bicycles: Pedestrians

Asked by Sir Julian SmithConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 23 December 2025UIN 99766

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of injuries to pedestrians caused by rented electric bikes in each of the last five years.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The Department does not currently collect specific data on incidents involving rental e-bikes.

The Standing Committee on Road Injury Collision Statistics, which oversees the collection of road collision and casualty statistics known as STATS19, is currently reviewing the recording of vehicle and propulsion types within STATS19 with a view to providing better guidance to reporting police officers on the classification of e-bikes.

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