Fired involving e-bikes and scooters

​Request ​818724197

Please provide data on fires involving e bikes or e scooters recorded by your fire service. Specifically, I would be grateful for:

• The annual total number of fires involving e bikes or e scooters for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and for the year to date in 2026.
• ​A breakdown of these annual totals by device type (e bike or e scooter).

• A breakdown of these annual totals by the number of related injuries and fatalities. 

Response 

From 1 January 2020 to 31 March 2026, the States of Jersey Fire and Resue Service (SJFRS), as part of Justice and Home Affairs, have attended fewer than 5 fires involving an electric bike (e-bike) and zero fires involving an electric kick scooter (e-scooter). There were no related injuries or fatalities recorded. 

​There are zero related injuries or fatalities recorded. 

Disclosure Controls

Where numbers are fewer than five, disclosure control is applied to avoid identification of individuals. Numbers fewer than five are represented as '<5'. Further breakdown by month has not been provided as this information could lead to identification of individuals. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(1) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(2) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.