FOI 1854 - Fires caused by e-bikes or scooter batteries

Please could you tell me for each of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023:

 - How many fires suspected of being caused by faulty e-bike or scooter batteries have there been    which have been responded to by your fire service

- How many of these caused injuries?

- How many of these cause death?

E-Bike Battery Fires

    Year        

    Fires      

     Injuries  

    Fatalities   

2020

1

0

0

2021

0

0

0

2022

5

3

0

2023

0

0

0

Scooter Battery Fires

 Year    

        Fires    

     Injuries    

   Fatalities    

2020

3

0

0

2021

0

0

0

2022

1

2

0

2023

0

0

0

Please be aware that there is no specific category on our data systems for scooter, e-scooter, e-bike or electric bike. The information provided is based on a keyword search for ‘scooter’, ‘e-scooter’, ‘electric scooter’, ‘e-bike’ or ‘electric bike’ on our incident recording systems. Therefore, the data provided may not include all fires involving scooters or e-bikes unless these keywords were recorded on the incident logs.



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Last updated: Friday, 16 February 2024


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