Comparison of motor-vehicle involved e-scooter fatalities with other traffic fatalities.

Introduction: Shared e-scooters are an emerging mode of transportation with many features that make their physical properties, behavior, and travel patterns unique. Safety concerns have been raised concerning their usage, but it is difficult to understand effective interventions with so little data available.

Methods: Using media and police reports, a crash dataset was developed of rented dockless e-scooter fatalities in crashes involving motor vehicles that occurred in the United States in 2018-2019 (n = 17) and the corresponding records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data were identified.