Young boys and men appear to be over-represented in the stats. Of the casualties, 302 – the most of any age and sex category – were males aged 10-19.<\/p>\n
Six deaths were recorded in 2024, unchanged from the previous year. Five of these were riders and one a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
Although the numbers aren’t conclusive, it is thought more accidents are happening on privately owned e-scooters. Winchcomb says police statistics “aren’t reflective of the number of injuries”.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, campaigners believe there is enough evidence to show that regulation is urgently needed.<\/p>\n
Carly Calland’s 14-year-old son Jacob died in March 2025 of a catastrophic head injury. He was a passenger on an e-scooter that was involved with a collision with a car.<\/p>\n
If privately owned e-scooters are legalised for public use, Carly believes, there should be mandatory helmets, a ban on carrying passengers and penalties for parents that allow children to ride illegally.<\/p>\n
“If Jacob was wearing a helmet that day, he would still be here,” Carly, from Wythenshawe in Greater Manchester, says.<\/p>\n
Carly is not against e-scooters. They “are really good for people to get to work, and they are eco-friendly”, she tells me, but “they just need to be used in the correct way.”<\/p>\n
What happens if the current situation goes on? Her answer is emphatic: “More deaths.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young boys and men appear to be over-represented in the stats. Of the casualties, 302 – the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}