Electric Bicycles: Accidents

(asked on 5th February 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy that the Road Safety Investigation Branch (a) record and (b) publish data on collisions involving illegally modified e-bikes separately from those involving standard pedal cycles.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 13th February 2026

The Road Safety Investigation Branch will be data-led and provide thematic investigations based on robust evidence and linked data. The work of the branch is currently being scoped out and further details will be shared in due course.

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