The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has recently released Australia’s first national dataset on e-scooter and e-bike injuries. Given the rapid growth in the use of e-rideables, the monitoring of injuries associated with e-rideables is vital.
Please note that this report cannot provide precise counts of injuries involving e-scooters or e-bikes. Current hospital data place these devices within broader transport categories. The findings should therefore be interpreted as trends in transport groups that include e-scooters and e-bikes, rather than as exact counts for those devices. New national codes introduced on 1 July 2026 will allow future hospital data to distinguish e-scooters, e-bikes and other e-mobility devices more clearly.
E-Scooters
The data indicates that the rate of hospitalisations due to falls from a category of vehicles that includes e-scooters more than tripled from 2019-20 to 2024-25. That is an increase from 1,291 hospitalisations in 2019-20 to 4,089 hospitalisations in 2024-25.
In 2024-25, males accounted for around two-thirds (69%) of the hospitalisations for falls involving the transport group that includes e-scooters. With boys aged 12-15 more than four times as likely as girls of the same age to be hospitalised for falls.
Fractures were the most common injury reported in 2024-25, accounting for 58% of hospitalisations following falls involving the transport group that includes e-scooters.
There were 164 hospitalisations that involved pedestrians injured in collisions with the transport group that includes e-scooters.
Western Australian e-scooter data
Western Australia had the second-highest rate of hospitalisations for falls involving e-scooters in 2024-25 (18.2 hospitalisations per 100,000 people). Individuals aged 12-15 accounted for the latest proportion of hospitalisations (53%), followed by individuals aged 16-24 (42%).