Micro-Mobility for Europe (MMfE) have published their Incident Data for 2024, showing that the safety records of shared e-scooters and e-bikes continues to improve.
E-scooters in particular are becoming an ever-safer way of travelling, with the number of incidents that involved fatalities or required medical treatment falling by 29.8% per million km between 2021 and 2024.
For e-bike users, there has been a decrease of 13.3% per million km between 2022 and 2024.
The data is based on shared micro-mobility schemes operating in the 27 EU countries, the UK, Switzerland, Israel and Norway. It does not include figures from accidents involving privately owned vehicles.
The data is drawn from 312 million e-scooter trips covering a total of 562 million km and 79 million shared e-bike journeys covering more than 237 million km.
E-scooters appear to be the safer of the two micro-mobility options, with an injury rate of 7.1 per million trips compared to the 11.1 per million trips suffered by e-bike riders.
Over the course of last year, the number of e-scooter trips grew by 4% while the total number of injuries fell by 4%.
The MMfE point to number of factors behind the significant fall in injuries sustained while using micro-mobility vehicles, particularly the advances in technology which have made them safer to use and educational campaigns that have been run jointly by cities and their micro-mobility operators to raise awareness regarding safe driving.
MMfE’s Co-Chair Christy Pearson said: ‘A nearly 30% drop in injuries since 2021 shows that investments in infrastructure, rider education, and better vehicles are delivering real results. As cities look to reduce dependency on private cars and improve safety for everyone, shared e-scooters and e-bikes are proving they are not just sustainable, but increasingly secure.
‘In addition, the demand for our members’ services continues to grow as we reached more than 312 million e-scooter and more than 79 million e-bike trips in 2024. We look positively in the future and want to strengthen our services and collaboration with decision makers on local, regional, national and EU level..
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