Quad bike deaths could be on track to being the highest since 2015 if they continue at their current rate, says a health and safety organisation.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, a man\u00a0died after his quad bike rolled<\/a>\u00a0on a rural property in Waihao Downs, near Waimate.<\/p>\n It is at least the third quad bike fatality this year; a boy\u00a0died after a quad bike and motorbike crashed<\/a>\u00a0at a Warkworth residence in February, and there was another\u00a0death in March<\/a>\u00a0on a private property in Hastings.<\/p>\n There were four deaths in December 2023 alone.<\/p>\n Safer Farms chairperson Lindy Nelson said the death was devastating, and there seemed to be a worrying trend.<\/p>\n “This year seems particularly high in terms of fatalities on quad bikes,” Nelson said.<\/p>\n “We have had an unseasonable amount of deaths on quad bikes since spring last year, and they seem to be continuing,” she said.<\/p>\n “As an industry, we have all pulled together and started the work to look at what are the preventative factors, and how do we, as farmers, address these incidents.”<\/p>\n Some of their members have addressed the vehicle harm by switching to side-by-side vehicles, installing rollover protection on their quad bikes, and limiting their speed as well as being vigilant in when and where the bikes were used.<\/p>\n WorkSafe said it had not yet been notified of the death, which may be because it was a recreational incident and not work-related.<\/p>\n In 2015, there were nine quad bike fatalities reported to WorkSafe, the highest number since 2006 when the reported data began.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quad bike deaths could be on track to being the highest since 2015 if they continue at their current rate, says a health and safety organisation. On Saturday night, a man\u00a0died after his quad bike rolled\u00a0on a rural property in Waihao Downs, near Waimate. It is at least the third quad bike fatality this year; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions\/9646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}