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E-Bike Incidents Information

Manhattan Beach City Council
May 5, 2026

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E-Bike Incidents Information
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E-BIKE INCIDENTS INFORMATION
1/1/2020 to 12/4/2025
119 Bicycle collisions where a report was taken:

Age of the Parties:
12 and Under: 5 (4%)
13-17: 40 (33%)
18+: 64 (54%)
Unknown: 10 (8%)
Age of the Party at Fault:
12 and Under: 4 (3%)
13-17: 31 (26%)
18+: 78 (66%)
Unknown: 6 (5%)
Collisions By Year (Difference from Previous Year in Parenthesis):
2020:8
2021: 15 (+87.5%)
2022: 26 (+73.3%)
2023: 12 (-53.9%)
2024: 26 (+116.7%)
2025: 32 (+23.1%)
Since 2020, we’ve taken approximately 20 bicycle-involved collision reports per year. 73% of the time, the bicyclist was the party at fault in these traffic collisions.

While parties aged 13-17 are involved in a third of the collisions during this time frame, they’re at fault in those collisions approximately 26 percent of the time. Collisions involving children under 13 remain low; however, they are almost universally at fault when involved in a traffic accident.

More collisions involving bicyclists occur on Mondays and Fridays than any other day. November leads all months in bicycle-involved collisions, followed by May, September, and October.

While we have no mechanism on our traffic collision forms to determine if a bicycle is electric or manual, a hand count of the information gathered based on bicycle make and model would indicate that in 2020, 50% of bicycle-involved traffic collisions involved an electric bicycle. In 2025, approximately 90% of bicycle-involved traffic collisions involved an electric bicycle.

Bicycle Citations
2026:

Admin Citations: 15
Other Bicycle Citations: 20
2025:

Admin Citations: 96
Other Bicycle Citations: 154
2024:

Admin Citations: 51
Other Bicycle Citations: 283
2023:

Admin Citations: 108
Other Bicycle Citations: 256

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