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207 people were seriously injured by the electric bicycle in 2020; there is mainly a reason
Dangerous: electric bicycles. Image: sda
The number of electric bicycle riders in serious accidents increased again in the first half of 2020. Therefore, the trend of recent years continued. The most common cause of accidents was gear speed.
The number of seriously injured electric bike drivers rose from 148 to 207 in the same period last year, as the Federal Highway Office (Astra) showed in its traffic accident statistics Thursday. Six people died in electric bicycle accidents, one less than in the first half of 2019.
More than 20 percent of the accidents caused by electric bicycles were caused by improper speed. In the first half of 2019, this was still the case in 8 percent of cases.
The Federal Council wants light and helmet
In mid-August, the Federal Council presented several consultation measures to increase the safety of electric bicycle users. For example, the state government proposes mandatory lighting, mandatory helmets for slow electric bicycles, and mandatory speedometer for faster ones.
A total of 95 people died in Swiss road traffic in the first half of the year, 19 more than at the end of June 2019. In 2018, there were 102. The long-term downward trend in the number of serious injuries continued: 1614 people they were seriously injured at the end of June this year. In the comparable period of 2019 there were 1,687 and 2018 1,778.
The number of fatalities and serious injuries fell more sharply on motorways and expressways than on the rest of the road network. (aeg / sda)
