Anyone who’s spent time on City of Atlanta streets recently can see the network of protected (and not) biking infrastructure growing—and e-bike and e-scooter patronage right along with it. A new nationwide study helps paint the picture of why that’s important. 

Georgia is among 10 states where data indicate e-bike and e-scooter deaths have been “surging” in recent years, according to Walner Law, a Chicago-based personal injury law firm founded in 1961. 

The study, released this week, found that Americans now use e-scooter apps almost 60 million times annually, and the goal was to reveal hotspots “where this new form of transportation creates the most dangerous situations,” according to reps.

The firm’s research examined federal crash records between 2022 and 2024 across all 50 states and Washington D.C. to determine where fatal crashes rates are growing for e-bike and e-scooter transportation, or micromobility. 

Analysts looked at how much yearly rates of rider deaths increased over the three-year period, plus how large a share of all traffic deaths those accounted for, combining those statistics into a single score to pinpoint states with the “biggest surge.”  

Georgia saw eight e-scooter and e-bike fatalities in the time period studied—far below more populated states such as California (50) and Florida (41). But that did account for a .27-percent increase in deaths per million residents in Georgia between 2022 and 2024.  

A handful of nearly 1,000 Atlantans who earned e-bike rebates through a program that began in summer 2024. Atlanta Regional Commission

Alongside Louisiana, Georgia led the nation in terms of “e-bike search interest” growth over the time period studied, with both states up more than 36 percent, according to the study. 

On a related note, Atlanta Department of Transportation officials have said Georgia’s capital city trailed only New York City and Los Angeles, respectively, in terms of micromobility usage in 2025, with an additional nearly 3 million trips logged in the first seven months of this year alone. 

Protected bike lanes installed this year on 14th Street in Midtown and points west, as seen in May. Urbanize Atlanta

The Walner Law study found that New Jersey is the most dangerous state for e-bike and e-scooter riders, where about 1 in 60 deaths on roadways now involves a micromobility rider, the highest share among states with an increasing problem.  

Meanwhile, in California, crashes involving e-bikes and e-scooters have spiked by 271 percent since 2022, per the study. 

“Florida hospitals are getting busier as scooter crashes send more riders to [emergency rooms],” according to a study recap, “with one system even reporting a 178 percent rise in injuries.”

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