New York City Police Department 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.
New York City Police Department 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. NYPD is the city police department that records collision reports, and the data is published through NYC Open Data, New York City's public data portal. 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 recorded victim groups include bicyclists or e-bike riders, other or unspecified road users, pedestrians, and motor-vehicle occupants 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. These are crash-involvement counts, not proof of who caused a crash.
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 have 3,238 recorded 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 3,144 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, or foot | 3,622 | 37.2% |
|---|---|---|
| Head | 1,634 | 16.8% |
| Elbow, lower arm, or hand | 1,243 | 12.8% |
| Entire Body | 821 | 8.4% |
| Shoulder or upper arm | 774 | 7.9% |
| Back | 627 | 6.4% |
| Face | 513 | 5.3% |
| Hip or upper leg | 508 | 5.2% |
The key caveat
The vehicle type field is unstandardized 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 or a fault finding.
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Methodology
Vehicle rows come from the New York City Police Department 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. NYPD is the city police department that records collision reports. 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 and not a determination of fault.
