Topical statistics
Find statistics for topical events. Currently, you can find e-scooter and bicycle related stats on this page.
- E-scooter monthly new claims for 2022 to 2024 ytd.
- Bicycle-related new claims for 2020 to 2024 ytd.
- Caveats to this data.
E-scooter injury claims
We’ve recently reviewed our text-matching definition for e-scooter related claims, which will result in different claim volumes that we’ve previously supplied for these topical statistics. You can find out more in the caveats section.
E-scooters launched in New Zealand in October 2018.
Find our safety tips for e-scooting and more in-depth data in our Newsroom articles.
E-scooters: Wellington city it's your turn
Three years of e-scooters: the true cost of convenience
Bicycle-related new claims by year
| Year | e-Bikes | Mountain bikes | Other bicycle-related accidents |
| 2020 | 991 | 5,696 | 35,600 |
| 2021 | 1,414 | 5,333 | 33,456 |
| 2022 | 1,791 | 4,595 | 30,054 |
| 2023 | 1,823 | 4,155 | 29,647 |
| 2024 ytd | 1,458 | 3,091 | 22,943 |
- A calendar year is 1 January to 31 December.
- Accredited employer claims have been excluded.
- 'New claims' have been counted by the date that ACC registered a claim. This can be immediately after the injury occurred or at any later stage.
- 'Active claims' are claims that generated a payment in the relevant years / months. These claims were not necessarily registered, or had the accident occur, in the same year / month.
- Claim counts fewer than 4 show as "<4" to ensure client privacy.
- Costs provided are exclusive of GST.
- Costs are based on payment date. Payment date may be different to the date of service.
- Costs do not include Public Health Acute Services (PHAS) payments. Treatment for covered claims in public hospitals is provided by an annual service agreement between ACC and the Ministry of Health, and is funded by bulk payments from ACC to the Crown.
- The calendar year and month in which the service was paid may differ to the calendar year and month in which the service was provided.
- A claim can cover multiple calendar years. A claim which lasts longer than one year is counted as 'active' once for each calendar year covered. For example, a claim which lasted from January 2021 to March 2021 would be counted a total of three times, once for each month.
- The accident description is a non-mandatory free-text field on the ACC45 form. The nature and quality of responses varies. These data should therefore be considered indicative, but not a definitive count of claims.
- Diagnosis and site are based on the client's primary injury. Claims may have multiple injuries; however, these secondary injuries will not show within this data extract.
- Location is based on where an accident took place and may differ to where a client was residing at the time.
- Claims have been identified and categorised based on the presence of keywords in the accident description field. The accident description is a non-mandatory free-text field on the ACC45 form. The nature and quality of responses varies, sot these data should therefore be considered indicative, but not a definitive count of claims.
- Data was extracted at a point in time and may differ if re-run later.
We have been made aware that there is an issue with some ACC data for March 2022. We are not aware of the full extent of this issue, and claim counts and costs are subject to change.