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Electric bicycle incidents (FOI)

Electric bicycle incidents (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 30 December 2021.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

How many times have paramedics / ambulance services been called to incidents involving electric bikes in Jersey in each of the years 2019 / 2020 / 2021? Separately, how many times have police been called to incidents involving electric bikes, that have resulted in injury, anywhere in Jersey in each of the years 2019 / 2020 / 2021? If you could also separately list number of road traffic collisions, that would be much appreciated too.

Response

This information is not held by Government of Jersey, as per Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.  

A search of the States of Jersey Police incident log database has been conducted using the search term “electric bike”. The results have then been manually filtered to identify the following statistics:


​​All electric bike incidents resulting in injury
​Road traffic collisions involving electric bikes (injury and non-injury)
​2019
​1
​1
​2020
​5
​5
​2021
​4
​5


Article applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

 For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.


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