In the Canary Islands, a total of 27 scooter accidents occurred in 2024, five more than the previous year, which is equivalent to an increase of 23%, according to data from the Mapfre Foundation that gathers all accidents reported in the press involving scooters.
In Lanzarote, the Mapfre Foundation had reported only one incident in 2023, while last year there were four, one of them fatal in September 2024, when a 17-year-old lost his life after colliding with a car.
Thus, three of the five additional accidents that occurred last year compared to the previous year, 60%, happened in Lanzarote.
Tenerife tops the list, with 16 accidents, representing 59% of the total, followed by Gran Canaria, with seven incidents (26%) and Lanzarote, with four (15%).
No accidents with this vehicle were recorded in Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, and La Graciosa in 2024.
According to the Foundation, the urban road continues to be the place where the most incidents occur, 33% of the cases, followed by roads and crossings, where 19% of the accidents took place, despite the express prohibition of driving these vehicles on this type of road.
The main causes of scooter accidents were collisions with other vehicles - cars (56%) and falls without third parties involved (41%). In 2024, no pedestrian run-overs or collisions against fixed elements were recorded, the Foundation points out.
The data offered by the report, 'Analysis of the Accident Rate of Personal Mobility Vehicles 2024', carried out by the Mapfre Foundation and CESVIMAP based on accidents published in the media, aims to know the incidents related to a personal mobility vehicle (PMV), whether as a result of a fall, collision, run-over or fire.
At a national level, the report reflects that last year a total of 13 people, mostly men, lost their lives as a result of an accident that occurred while using a PMV, a figure to which is added a motorcyclist who died in an accident involving a scooter, making a total of 14 fatalities, which represents two more deaths.
In the 396 accidents analyzed, 23% more than the previous year, a total of 240 injured were also counted, of which 138 suffered minor injuries and 102 suffered serious injuries.
Nationally in 2024, the Mapfre Foundation has counted 400 accidents throughout Spain, 23% more than in 2023, in which 240 people suffered an injury and 14 lost their lives.
