Riding an e-scooter is five times safer than riding a bicycle, nine times safer than riding a motorbike and the dangers to pedestrians from the battery-powered machines are lower than previously thought.
They are the main findings of major research undertaken by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, and that could signal the Government to relax the ban on the machines.
The RoSPA report gathered all the data on crashes, injuries, collisions and incidents involving e-scooters from 2020, and considered the nature of injury risk associated with e-scooter risks, compared with other modes of transport.
