Department for Transport written question – answered at on 7 September 2021.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of reported accidents caused by an e-scooter where that e-scooter was being used (a) as part of and (b) not as part of an e-scooter trial.
Data on personal injury road accidents is collected via the STATS19 system of accidents reported by the police. Although e-scooters are not currently one of the designated vehicle types in STATS19, guidance has been issued to police forces to identify them using the free text field for other vehicles.
Data for 2020 are currently being collated and validated. We intend to publish data on e-scooters and other vehicle types which can be reliably identified from the free text field alongside the annual Reported Road Casualties Great Britain statistics publication in September 2021.
In the future, the STATS19 data collection system will be amended so that e-scooters (and similar) can be identified as a vehicle type – details are in the report here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001195/stats-19-review-final-report.pdf (page 11)
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