So far this year, 328 electric scooter accidents with personal injuries have been reported in Skåne.

In Stockholm County, the corresponding figure was 290 and in Västra Götaland County 180. But the Swedish Transport Agency believes that one should be careful about drawing conclusions.

- The high number may be due to the fact that more people in Skåne use electric scooters, that there are more electric scooters in circulation and that more accidents are reported in Skåne, says Khabat Amin, administrator at the Swedish Transport Agency, to SVT Nyheter Skåne.

In the accident statistics, it becomes clear that the number of accidents increased sharply in 2019 when the vehicle was established on the market.

In 2020, the Swedish Transport Agency saw no major change, but believes that there have been problems with reporting and that there is therefore a major dropout last year.

Boys most affected by accidents

The statistics show that it is people in their younger teens up to the age of 34 who make up the majority of those injured in accidents with electric scooters.

Men are slightly overrepresented and account for about 60 percent of those injured in power park accidents.

The majority of accidents were single accidents.

Most were injured in the evenings and nights during the weekends, and it is mainly in the metropolitan regions that accidents occur.

- These statistics show that this type of accident is increasing and that we now have a new accident variant in traffic.

But it is difficult to draw any other conclusions at the moment, says Khabat Amin at the Swedish Transport Agency.

In 2016, there were 19 electric scooter accidents with personal injuries throughout the country.

So far this year, the number of accidents in Sweden is 1056.

Earlier this year, we met Malmö resident Lisa Forstenius who was hit by an electric scooter:

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Watch Malmö resident Lisa Forstenius talk about when she was hit in the clip.

Photo: SVT and TT