FOI 26-328 E-Scooter Incidents
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 26-328 E-Scooter Incidents
- Request Date
- 22 Jul 2026
- Response Date
- 04 Aug 2026
- Information Requested
The number of ambulance callouts involving electric‑scooter incidents for each of the last ten calendar years (2014–2024 inclusive). Please include incidents involving: riders pedestrians struck by e‑scooters collisions with vehicles falls or loss of control under‑age riders If available, please also provide: 2. A breakdown showing: type of incident (collision, fall, pedestrian injury, etc.) suspected vs confirmed injury number of incidents resulting in conveyance to hospital
- Response
The Scottish Ambulance Service records and responds to incidents primarily on the basis of the patient's presenting condition, chief complaint and operational dispatch information. We do not record or categorise incidents by the cause of injury by E-Scooters
The Service does not hold a searchable category, code or report that would identify incidents involving riders pedestrians struck by e‑scooters collisions with vehicles falls or loss of control under‑age riders
In order to provide the information requested, the Service would be required to manually review individual incident records and associated free-text clinical notes over the relevant period to determine whether a Electric scooters may have been involved. This would require the application of professional judgement to interpret the circumstances recorded within each case and would effectively result in the creation of new information rather than the retrieval of recorded information already held.
As the Scottish Ambulance Service does not hold the requested information in a recorded and retrievable form, this information is exempt under section 17(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, as information not held.
