NYPD records show 9,838 e-bike-involved injury crashes from 2019 through 2025. The injured people are not only pedestrians. Most recorded injury victims are bicyclists, e-bike riders, or other road users in the same crashes.
NYC collision records show 9,838 injury crashes from 2019 through 2025 where at least one vehicle was reported as an e-bike or close e-bike variant. Those crashes injured or killed 10,677 people in the person table. Pedestrians are part of the story, but they are not the whole story. The largest recorded victim group is bicyclists or e-bike riders, followed by other or unspecified road users in the same crashes.
Who gets hurt in e-bike-involved crashes
Injured or killed people by person type, 2019 to 2025.
| Bicyclist or e-bike rider | 4,795 | 44.9% |
|---|---|---|
| Other or unspecified | 4,542 | 42.5% |
| Pedestrian | 965 | 9% |
| Motor-vehicle occupant | 375 | 3.5% |
The public person table does not reliably identify which bicyclist was riding the e-bike, so bicyclists and e-bike riders are grouped together.
Age of injured people
Injured or killed people in e-bike-involved crashes by age group.
| Under 18 | 760 | 7.1% |
|---|---|---|
| 18–24 | 2,268 | 21.2% |
| 25–34 | 3,238 | 30.3% |
| 35–44 | 2,109 | 19.8% |
| 45–54 | 1,137 | 10.6% |
| 55–64 | 748 | 7% |
| 65+ | 358 | 3.4% |
| Unknown | 59 | 0.6% |
Adults ages 25 to 34 form the largest recorded group with 3,238 injured or killed people.
Where e-bike injury crashes are reported
E-bike-involved injury crashes by borough, 2019 to 2025.
| Brooklyn | 3,144 | 41.1% |
|---|---|---|
| Queens | 1,735 | 22.7% |
| Manhattan | 1,499 | 19.6% |
| Bronx | 1,211 | 15.8% |
| Staten Island | 57 | 0.7% |
Brooklyn has the most reported e-bike-involved injury crashes. Another 2,192 injury crashes have no borough recorded in the crash table.
Reported e-bike injury crashes over time
E-bike-involved crashes with at least one injury or death.
| 2019 | 44 | 0.4% |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 718 | 7.3% |
| 2021 | 2,182 | 22.2% |
| 2022 | 2,136 | 21.7% |
| 2023 | 2,112 | 21.5% |
| 2024 | 1,454 | 14.8% |
| 2025 | 1,192 | 12.1% |
The category rises sharply after 2019 and peaks in 2021 with 2,182 injury crashes. Early years may reflect both growth in e-bike use and changes in how vehicle type was recorded.
Most common recorded injuries
Body part recorded for injured or killed people in e-bike-involved crashes.
| Knee-Lower Leg Foot | 3,622 | 37.2% |
|---|---|---|
| Head | 1,634 | 16.8% |
| Elbow-Lower-Arm-Hand | 1,243 | 12.8% |
| Entire Body | 821 | 8.4% |
| Shoulder - Upper Arm | 774 | 7.9% |
| Back | 627 | 6.4% |
| Face | 513 | 5.3% |
| Hip-Upper Leg | 508 | 5.2% |
The key caveat
The vehicle type field is dirty free text. This report counts rows whose vehicle type contains e-bike, e bike, or electric bike. It excludes e-scooters and mopeds from the headline counts so the definition stays narrow. That choice misses some miscoded electric bikes and avoids adding vehicles that operate differently. The person table also does not reliably connect an injured person to the specific e-bike vehicle, so victim type is a crash-involvement profile rather than a rider-only injury count.
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Methodology
Vehicle rows come from the NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions Vehicles dataset. A collision is treated as e-bike-involved when at least one vehicle row from 2019 through 2025 has a vehicle type containing e-bike, e bike, or electric bike after uppercasing the free-text field. Those collision IDs are matched to the NYPD Crashes table, and injury crashes are collisions with at least one reported injury or death in the crash row. Injured people are then pulled from the NYPD Person table where person injury is injured or killed. Borough comes from the crash table. Age buckets and body-injury categories come from the person table. Because the vehicle type field is not standardized and the person table does not consistently identify the e-bike rider, counts should be read as e-bike-involved crash profiles, not a complete census of all e-bike injuries.
