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E-Bike and E-Scooter Crash Data Report: U.S., California and Northern California, 2026 Edition

Public data report · 2026 edition

E-Bike and E-Scooter Crash Data Report: U.S., California and Northern California, 2026 Edition

National ER estimates and death records, California police-reported crashes, county counts, and local hospital findings. Each source measures a different population.

59,200
Estimated U.S. e-bike ER visits, 2024. CPSC, all ages.
79,300
Estimated U.S. e-scooter ER visits, 2024. CPSC, all ages.
31
All-person deaths in California coded-device crashes, 2024. CCRS.
190
Non-rider injuries in that California coded subset, 2024. CCRS.

Snapshot: November 4, 2026. California counts cover crashes where police coded an e-bike or the broader scooter/motorboard category, not a complete device-crash census. Counts are not risk per ride.

Research and original public-record analysis: Scranton Law Firm.

U.S. emergency-room visits

U.S. ER visits by device, 2024

E-bike59,200estimated ER visitsE-scooter79,300estimated ER visits
E-bike59,200estimated ER visitsE-scooter79,300estimated ER visits
Source: CPSC NEISS, April 2026 report, pp. 13–14. Scranton Law Firm analysis. All-age product-related ER estimates, including nontraffic events. E-bike identification and follow-up changed in 2024; not comparable to unreweighted older reports.

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Current reweighted CPSC report; verified device-specific values only.
AñoDeviceEstimated ER visits
2024e bike59200
2024e scooter79300

The table shows the verified current-report device estimates. Exact intermediate annual values were not verified, so no device-by-year trend is interpolated; the older annual table is superseded and is not spliced into this chart.

U.S. deaths: FARS and CPSC

U.S. FARS deaths by device and year

Motorized bicycle619792Standing/seated scooter416386202220232024Age detail by device and year2022 bike3572022 scooter4372023 bike5922023 scooter8552024 bike4872024 scooter1669Under 18AdultUnknown
Motorized bicycle619792Standing/seated scooter416386202220232024Age detail by device and year2022 bike572022 scooter4372023 bike922023 scooter8552024 bike872024 scooter1669Under 18AdultUnknown
Source: NHTSA FARS annual person files, original filtered counts. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Fatal persons in qualifying motor-vehicle traffic crashes. Motorized bicycles and standing/seated scooters are broader than electric-only devices. Age detail is in the table.

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Original fatal-person counts, not an NHTSA-published e-bike table.
AñoMotorized deviceUnder 18AdultUnknown ageTotal
2022motorized bicycle357161
2022motorized standing or seated scooter437041
2023motorized bicycle592097
2023motorized standing or seated scooter855063
2024motorized bicycle487192
2024motorized standing or seated scooter1669186

Comparable device fields begin in 2022, and FARS excludes device-only crashes without a qualifying motor vehicle in transport. Separately, CPSC recorded 533 reported micromobility fatalities in 2017–2024, including 310 e-bike, 206 e-scooter and 17 hoverboard deaths; 135 were reported for 2024.

CPSC reports are incomplete and include fires and nontraffic hazards; neither death system is a complete e-bike/e-scooter death census, and the systems must not be added together.

California injury and fatal crashes by year

California injury/fatal crashes

E-bikeScooter/motorboard2275272022504713202388710572024136314562025**2025 provisional
E-bikeScooter/motorboard2275272022504713202388710572024136314562025**2025 provisional
Source: CHP CCRS, original distinct-crash counts. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Crashes where police coded device type: 91 e-bike; 94 broader scooter/motorboard, not e-scooters alone. *2025 provisional. Changes can reflect coding/reporting, not only incidence.

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Injury/fatal crashes: at least one person injured or killed, regardless of party.
AñoE-bike codedScooter/motorboard codedCombined, deduplicated
2022227527753
20235047131217
202488710571944
2025 provisional136314562816

The device columns can overlap and must not be added; the combined column deduplicates crash IDs. These mutable police records omit unreported or miscoded events, and provisional 2025 is not a validated incidence trend.

California deaths and non-rider victims

California deaths and non-rider injuries

All-person deathsNon-rider injuries14802022191362023311902024442942025**2025 provisional
All-person deathsNon-rider injuries14802022191362023311902024442942025**2025 provisional
Source: CHP CCRS, original linked crash/victim counts. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Combined coded-device crashes. Deaths cover everyone in the crash; injuries cover non-riders. Different outcomes, not additive. *2025 provisional. Involvement does not identify who caused each injury.

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Combined either-code records. Pedestrians are a subset of non-riders; serious injuries are a subset of injuries.
AñoAll deathsNon-rider deathsNon-rider injuriesSerious subsetPedestrian deathsPedestrian injuriesSerious subset
20221408080202
2023192136201389
2024313190272449
2025 provisional443294341659

Non-riders exclude focal device operators but include other parties and explicitly identified device passengers. Deaths are summed once per crash, victims are deduplicated, and reported serious injury is a police category rather than a clinical audit.

Recorded fault by device and age presence

Recorded device-party fault share (%), 2024

62.18%E-bikeUnder 1859.46%E-bikeAdult67.68%Scooter/motorboardUnder 1862.54%Scooter/motorboardAdult
62.18%E-bikeUnder 1859.46%E-bikeAdult67.68%Scooter/motorboardUnder 1862.54%Scooter/motorboardAdult
Source: CHP CCRS, original IsAtFault flag analysis. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Percent of all qualifying injury/fatal crashes with a matching device/age party flagged true, including missing entries in the denominator. Unknown ages are excluded from age-specific rows, not treated as adults.

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IsAtFault=True numerator; all injury/fatal crashes in each device/age-presence group as denominator.
AñoDeviceAge presenceFlagged crashesAll qualifying crashesFlagged share (%)
2022E-bikeunder18436368.25
2022E-bikeadult5911352.21
2022Scooter/motorboardunder18314470.45
2022Scooter/motorboardadult7811866.1
2023E-bikeunder1810616663.86
2023E-bikeadult12919167.54
2023Scooter/motorboardunder18334967.35
2023Scooter/motorboardadult10816764.67
2024E-bikeunder1814823862.18
2024E-bikeadult19833359.46
2024Scooter/motorboardunder18679967.68
2024Scooter/motorboardadult19731562.54
2025 provisionalE-bikeunder1826441264.08
2025 provisionalE-bikeadult34459058.31
2025 provisionalScooter/motorboardunder1816823870.59
2025 provisionalScooter/motorboardadult29654054.81

Missing fault entries do not mean false, and age-presence groups can overlap. These are police investigative flags, not proof that a device operator caused every injury; unknown ages and incomplete coding prevent youth-versus-adult risk conclusions.

Northern California county count ranking

Selected Northern California counties, 2024

San Francisco173Sacramento101Alameda95Santa Clara29Marin18Contra Costa15Placer15Solano10County tile mapSchematic, not geographic scale or a risk mapMarin18Solano10Sacramento101Placer15SanFrancisco173ContraCosta15Alameda95Santa Clara29
San Francisco173Sacramento101Alameda95Santa Clara29Marin18Contra Costa15Placer15Solano10County tile mapSchematic, not geographic scale or a risk mapMarin18Solano10Sacramento101Placer15SanFrancisco173ContraCosta15Alameda95Santa Clara29
Source: CHP CCRS, original distinct injury/fatal crash counts. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Selected counties, not all Northern California. Crash location, not residence. Counts depend on exposure and coding; this is not a county danger or per-ride risk ranking.

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2024 combined coded-device subset. Select a column heading to sort the count table.
San Francisco17310250100
Sacramento1014060034
Alameda950011010
Santa Clara29106022
Marin18002004
Contra Costa15001001
Placer15001004
Solano10102001

The default order is recorded injury/fatal crash count, not safety. Under-18 involvement means a coded party with a stated minor age, not necessarily an injured child; a zero means no record in this extract, not no real-world harm.

California age breakdown and missingness

California e-bike-coded parties by age, 2024

Recorded party-age composition266364369Under 18266Adult364Unknown age369Bar widths reflect counts; unknown age retained.
Recorded party-age composition266364369Under 18266Adult364Unknown age369Bar widths reflect counts; unknown age retained.
Source: CHP CCRS, original all-severity party counts. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Coded e-bike parties, including uninjured parties and property-damage-only crashes. Unknown age stays unknown. Not injured-person counts or a statewide rider-age share.

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Code 91 crash-involved party records, all severities; age-completeness diagnostic.
AñoUnder 18AdultUnknown ageTotal
20200103646
20218224979
20226712557249
2023184211164559
2024266364369999

Under-18 parties account for 266 of 999 recorded parties in 2024, with 369 ages unknown. This fraction is not the percentage of California e-bike riders who are minors; coding adoption, missing age and source coverage prevent a defensible statewide youth share.

Local and clinical data

Pediatric hospital injury increase per quarter (%)

E-bike+33%per quarterE-scooter+15%per quarter
E-bike+33%per quarterE-scooter+15%per quarter
Source: Stanford Medicine institutional summary of JAMA study. Scranton Law Firm analysis. Reported percentage increase per quarter, January 2023–March 2026, six pediatric hospitals. No quarterly counts were verified or reconstructed. Not population incidence or risk per ride.

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Stanford institutional summary of JAMA study. Percentages among injured cohort patients, except the growth row.
Pediatric cohort findingE-bikeE-scooter
Reported increase per quarter33%15%
High-severity injuries8%5%
Lesiones cerebrales10%9%

The study included 13,307 patients across electric and nonmotorized bicycle, scooter and skateboard comparison groups, not only e-bike/e-scooter injuries. Journal full text was inaccessible, so these findings are attributed to the institutional summary, not independently reconstructed quarterly data.

San Francisco hospital and police series

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SFDPH, severe traffic injuries treated at ZSFG, all ages, p. 16. Critical is a subset of severe.
AñoSevere e-scooter injuriesCritical subset
201872
201941
202054
202184
202283

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SFMTA/SFPD report, p. 20: stand-up scooters, electric skateboards and one-wheel boards combined.
AñoPowered standing-device injury collisions
202095
2023202
2024227

These local series use different devices, outcomes and coverage from the pediatric cohort and CCRS extract; they must not be added together. The police report’s inconsistent fatality prose/table is not used here.

Methodology and limits

National injury estimates. CPSC survey estimates count ER visits, not crashes or unique riders. They cover all ages and product hazards, including nontraffic events. We use the current report’s verified values only. No old-to-new series splice, missing-point interpolation or under-age share reconstructed from incompatible age bands is used.

California selection and deduplication. We select collision IDs with a device party coded 91 o 94, then retrieve crash rows, all parties and injury/passenger records. Deleted crashes and witness-only records are excluded. Deaths are summed once per distinct crash, not multiplied by joined parties. Victims are linked to their own party using collision ID and party number, and explicit fatal or injury severities are required. Combined-device counts deduplicate crashes and victims. Separate device and age-presence cells can overlap and must not be added.

Severity and role. Non-riders exclude the focal device operators but include explicitly identified device passengers. Missing links and unresolved device roles are not automatically classified as other-road-user harm. Serious injury uses the recorded SuspectSerious or legacy SevereInactive codes. It is a subset of injury, not an extra count. Crash-level death sums match fatal victim records in the extraction audit.

Fault. The IsAtFault true numerator is distinct injury/fatal crashes with a matching device/age party flagged true. The denominator is every qualifying injury/fatal crash, including missing flags. A separate primary-collision-party linkage is preserved. Neither measure establishes which party directly injured a victim.

Coverage gaps. 2025 is provisional. All CCRS figures are mutable snapshot counts, not a complete census or per-trip risk. Coding adoption and completeness have not been independently validated. No highway-only filter was applied; some nontraffic reports may appear. Falls, sidewalk/trail events, private-property events and unreported or miscoded crashes may be missed. Unknown age remains unknown. County is crash location.

Different death systems. FARS requires a qualifying motor vehicle in transport and a qualifying death within 30 days. A device/pedestrian-only collision without a qualifying motor vehicle falls outside that system. CCRS can contain device/pedestrian-only reports, but that does not establish complete capture. CPSC fatalities include different hazards. Do not add these systems together.

What cannot be concluded. No complete California or Northern California injury census, validated statewide youth share, risk per ride, or county danger ranking was established. Hospital findings are not added to police counts.

Sources and data definitions

ER visits, fatal persons, injury/fatal crashes, crash-involved parties and hospital encounters are different units. Original source queries and record-linkage evidence remain in the research audit package; downloadable chart CSVs retain source identifiers, with coverage stated in captions and the README.

Citation and press kit

Kit de prensa: gráficos, datos y código de inserción

Members of the media, public agencies, and researchers may use these charts and original analysis with attribution under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. Source and Scranton Law Firm analysis credits are built into every image. Underlying publications retain their source-specific terms.

U.S. ER visits by device, 2024U.S. ER visits by device, 2024 (PNG)U.S. FARS deaths by device and yearU.S. FARS deaths by device and year (PNG)California injury/fatal crashesCalifornia injury/fatal crashes (PNG)California deaths and non-rider injuriesCalifornia deaths and non-rider injuries (PNG)Recorded device-party fault share (%), 2024Recorded device-party fault share (%), 2024 (PNG)Selected Northern California counties, 2024Selected Northern California counties, 2024 (PNG)California e-bike-coded parties by age, 2024California e-bike-coded parties by age, 2024 (PNG)Pediatric hospital injury increase per quarter (%)Pediatric hospital injury increase per quarter (%) (PNG)
U.S. ER visits by device, 2024 (CSV)U.S. FARS deaths by device and year (CSV)California injury/fatal crashes (CSV)California deaths and non-rider injuries (CSV)Recorded device-party fault share (%), 2024 (CSV)Selected Northern California counties, 2024 (CSV)California e-bike-coded parties by age, 2024 (CSV)Pediatric hospital injury increase per quarter (%) (CSV)SF hospital table (CSV)SF police table (CSV)Full CCRS analysis (CSV)Imagen social (PNG)Data and README (ZIP)

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Scranton Law Firm. "E-Bike and E-Scooter Crash Data Report: U.S., California and Northern California, 2026 Edition". Research snapshot November 4, 2026. https://scrantonlawfirm.com/ebike-escooter-crash-study/
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