Fifteen people have died while riding standing electric scooters in Denver since the rentable devices hit the Mile High City in 2018. More than half of those deaths occurred just last year.
The city recorded eight deaths of standing e-scooter riders in 2025, according to the Department of Transportation & Infrastructure’s dashboard. That is quadruple the previous record for annual e-scooter deaths, set in 2021 and 2023.
Seven of the eight deaths resulted from scooter collisions with motor vehicles, according to Denver Police Department reports. In total, 199 scooter-vehicle crashes were reported to Denver police in 2025. In addition to the seven fatalities, nineteen crashes resulted in serious bodily injuries. However, those represent a small fraction of the total scooter-related injuries suffered by Denver residents, as the vast majority of incidents go unreported to police…