VeiligheidNL collected figures from fourteen Emergency Departments, which do not include Utrecht hospitals. These figures show that in the first half of this year, 140 victims were treated for injuries after a fatbike accident. In the whole of 2023, there were 75.
Almost half of the victims are between 12 and 15 years old, a quarter of these young victims suffer brain damage. Over the past five years, the number of e-bike accidents involving young people aged 12 to 17 has increased by 319 percent.