Australia to make quad bike roll bars compulsory, will NZ follow?

The Australian Government is to make rollbars mandatory on all new quad bikes within two years.

The move raises the question of whether New Zealand will follow suit but also of how many quad bikes bought in this country are manufactured in or distributed from Australia and therefore will carry them as standard equipment.

Federated Farmers said it continued to oppose the mandatory use of the protection devices, while New Zealand surgeons congratulated the Australian on its new safety standards and urged New Zealand to do similar.

Since 2006, 64 people have been killed on quad bikes while working, most of them farmers and farm workers.>

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Li Hsee, who chairs the NZ trauma committee, said the same standards needed to be put in place in New Zealand.

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