[Pedelec users get more severely injured compared to conventional cyclists].

Background: For years e‑bike (Pedelec) sales have been steadily increasing. Therefore, the incidence of e‑bike-related injuries and deaths has been growing. Due to clinical experience, emergency personnel are suspecting that e‑bikers might be injured more severely compared to conventional bicyclists suffering from an accident.

[E-bikers are more often seriously injured in bicycle accidents: results from the Groningen bicycle accident database].

Objective: Analysing injury types, injury severity and mortality in victims of accidents with electric bicycles in comparison with conventional bicycles.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Method: Data of patients treated at the Accident & Emergency Department of the University Medical Center Groningen after a bicycle accident are being entered in a database since 2014.