Transport Scotland - Edinburgh accident data: FOI release

Information requested

What was the number of reported a) pedestrian b) cyclist road casualties in 2024 in Edinburgh

• In what number of each was a motor vehicle involved
• In what number of each was a legal or illegal EAPC involved
• How many a) pedestrians b) cyclists were killed in an incident involving a motor vehicle in 2024'.

Response

Please note that the records we hold relate to collisions where someone is injured or killed, and which become known to Police Scotland. The following tables provide the information requested for pedestrians and pedal cyclists in 2024.

Pedestrian and pedal cycle casualties in Edinburgh by severity, 2024
	Killed	Serious	Slight	Total
Pedestrian	5	48	62	115
Pedal cycle	1	37	72	110
Total	6	85	134	225

Number of pedestrian casualties from motor vehicle collisions by severity, 2024
	Killed	Serious	Slight	Total
Pedestrian	5	47	61	113

Number of pedal cycle casualties from motor vehicle collisions by severity, 2024
	Killed	Serious	Slight	Total
Pedal cycle	1	37	68	106

Data on collisions which cause injury and take place on the road network, including adjacent pavements and cycle lanes, is collected by Police Scotland as part of the GB-wide dataset known as STATS19.
Within STATS19, there is not currently a vehicle category of ‘electric bicycle’ or similar. Instead, vehicles involved in injury road collisions can be recorded as either ‘bicycle’, ‘electric motorcycle’, or ‘other’.

From mid-2019 onwards, we have fields in our records where Police Scotland can record descriptions of the vehicles involved. For the three vehicle categories above, we have searched these fields for
variations of the descriptions ‘e-bike’, ‘e-bicycle’, and ‘electric’ and reviewed the results to assess whether these are likely to be considered an electric bicycle.

Through this process, we did not identify any pedestrians injured in collisions involving electric bicycles in 2024 in Edinburgh. There was one serious injury and one slight injury where we believe that riders
were riding electric bicycles in 2024.

Please note that this is likely to represent an incomplete record of electric bicycle collisions, as reporting officers may not always complete the additional fields that enabled us to identify electric
bicycles.

Transport Scotland are currently part of a working group led by the Department for Transport, which is considering how the collection of injury road collision information for e-bikes can be improved.

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