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E-scooter hire schemes linked to drop in bike collisions

Deniz Huseyin
03 April 2025
 

Electric scooter hire schemes appear to reduce the risk of bike collisions by around 20%, according to a University of Bristol-led study.

Researchers compared bicycle collision rates in areas before and after introducing an e-scooter scheme, to areas without a scheme. This looked at routinely collected police data on road collisions in the UK, between 2015 and 2023.

Overall rates of collisions for all vehicles went down during the Covid-19 pandemic, likely due to the lockdowns and restrictions...

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