Nearly 500 people were seriously injured in collisions involving e-scooters in Great Britain last year, government statistics have shown.

The Department for Transport (DfT) said there had been an estimated 1,484 casualties in crashes involving electric scooters, compared with 1,390 in 2024.

It said: “Our best estimate, after adjusting for changes in reporting by police, is that there were 485 seriously injured and 989 slightly injured in collisions involving e-scooters. This compares to 428 and 956 respectively in 2024.”

The statistics also showed that 10 people, all of whom were e-scooter riders, were killed in collisions compared with six in 2024.

The DfT said provisional figures for all types of road casualties in 2025 indicated a “broad continuation of recent trends”, with both the overall number of casualties and fatalities declining over the past decade.

There were an estimated 1,556 fatalities in reported road collisions in Great Britain in 2025, representing a decline of 3% compared with 2024.

Last year, 29,911 people were seriously injured or killed, representing an increase of 4% compared with 2024 – with 127,870 casualties of all severities.

Rod Dennis, the RAC’s senior policy officer, said: “Once again, this data shows that precious little progress has been made in reducing harm caused on our roads – and firmly underlines why the government’s road safety strategy is so critical.

“Frighteningly, on average four people still lose their lives on the roads every single day. If this number of people lost their lives on any other form of transport, serious questions would be being asked.”

In January, the Department for Transport announced a road safety strategy setting a target of reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on British roads by 65%, and 70% for children under 16, by 2035.

In 2025, 77% of fatalities were male and 61% of casualties of all severities were male.

Twenty-three per cent of fatalities and 28% of casualties involved people aged 17 to 29; and 24% of fatalities and 8% of casualties involved those aged 70 and over.

Under current legislation, the use of private e-scooters is illegal in any public space, including roads and pavements – rental e-scooters can be used, but only as part of the government’s national rental e-scooter trials.

A government spokesperson said: “We know the law needs updating to make sure e-scooters are safe for everyone on the road and will be consulting on e-scooter regulations in the next year.

“Our new road safety strategy, the first in over a decade, will save lives by tackling the root causes of deaths on our roads.

“We have set an ambitious target to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 65% by 2035 and have consulted on multiple new measures, including a lower drink‑drive limit and a minimum learning period.”

The boss of Burberry could earn up to £12.2m after the luxury British brand introduced a new bonus scheme, while its annual report also revealed the company has scaled back its climate ambitions.

Joshua Schulman, a former chief executive of the US fashion brand Coach who was hired in July 2024 to help revive Burberry, was paid £4m in the year to March, up from £2.5m for his first nine months in the job.

The latest year’s pay package included £1.2m in basic pay, a £2.3m annual cash bonus and £299,000 in relocation assistance after a move from New York, according to Burberry’s annual report published on Thursday.

The company made pre-tax profits of £49m in the year to 28 March, compared with a loss of £66m in the previous 12 months, as it cut £80m of annual costs, trimmed store numbers and won back Chinese and North American shoppers under Schulman’s Burberry Forward campaign.

However, the company has also become the latest business to extend its deadline to become carbon neutral by a decade to 2050. The annual report says: “We have refined our climate targets to reflect a greater understanding of [greenhouse gas] emissions across our value chain”.

It is the latest change from a strategy set by Schulman’s predecessor who five years ago pledged to have a net positive impact on the climate by 2040 and to reduce indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 46% by the end of the decade.

There have been similar moves to scale back efforts by companies including Unilever and BP.

Burberry’s report states: “We believe our revised targets reflect a pragmatic response to external factors, while allowing us to maintain a level of ambition in line with our assessment of climate change as a principal risk facing our business.”

Burberry sales remained flat year on year at £2.4bn once the effect of exchange rates was taken into account, as the brand moved away from discounting and prioritised sales of core products including trench coats and scarves.

The pay package of Kate Ferry, the finance director of Burberry, has also more than doubled to £2.5m, up from £904,000 the previous year, and included a £1.3m cash bonus and £457,000 long-term bonus. Ferry could earn £5.6m this year if she hits all targets and Burberry’s share price increases by 50%.

From July, Schulman’s basic pay will increase by 3% to £1.24m and he could also earn a new long-term share bonus worth up to 300% of salary if he meets performance targets that include increasing Burberry’s annual revenues to £3.1bn by 2029.

That award will come on top of an existing share bonus that is being slightly reduced from a maximum of 162.5% of salary to 150%, if shareholders approve the new scheme at the company’s annual meeting in July.

Burberry’s report said Schulman’s target pay was £6.4m, which would put him at the upper end of FTSE 100 executive pay rates but the lower end of global peers. That figure could rise to £12.2m in three years based on the pay policy introduced this year if he hits the most “stretching performance targets” and the share price increases by 50%. He could earn even more if his basic salary is increased further.

In the annual report, Danuta Gray, the chair of Burberry’s remuneration committee, said Schulman’s reward scheme had “been chosen so as to be appropriately incentivising” and aimed to retain him by improving his pay position relative to those who headed the brand’s luxury peers.

The report added that the scheme was also intended to be “reasonable”, Burberry had “not sought to match USA pay levels” and the payout was also subject to “the delivery of stretching performance targets”.

Schulman became the chief executive of Burberry in July 2024, replacing Jonathan Akeroyd.