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The rise in road injuries, as the organisation Motorbike Claims has said, is primarily linked to illegally modified e-bikes that exceed the UK’s legal power limit of 250 watts and maximum speed of 15.5 miles an hour, many of which are used by gig economy delivery riders—“many” is what it says, but in my experience it is every one. The second cause is reckless riders: individuals riding at excessive speeds, on pavements or in an unsafe manner. Thirdly, there are the rental provider companies—for example, Lime—which fail to monitor or discipline riders who break traffic laws. Fourthly, there are the employers, such as food delivery companies, including Uber Eats and Deliveroo, whose gig economy model incentivises speed over safety—but we have dealt with that before.