Helmets should be mandatory on quad bikes and children banned from riding adult-sized bikes, Queensland's deputy coroner has found. Coroner John Lock has been looking into the deaths of nine ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. He handed down the findings from the inquiry into quad bike-related deaths in Queensland, which included the ...

NORTH Queensland community leaders have backed recommendations by the Deputy State Coroner to ban children from riding adult-sized quad bikes and to make helmets mandatory. Deputy State Coroner John ...

“It is imperative in my view that steps be taken to make these vehicles safer,” Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund said when she handed down findings of a long-running inquest into the deaths, which ...

But you’re free to put your 10-year-old child’s life at risk by letting them ride an adult-sized quad bike. The fact that 40 children have died on these machines since 2001 is testament to the fact ...

GYMPIE region farmers will be fined for letting their children ride quad bikes and for riding a quad without a helmet, once changes are adopted next year. Quad bikes are one of the top three killers ...

Children's commissioner Dr Russell Wills says children under 16 should be banned from driving quad bikes.KENT BLECHYNDEN / FAIRFAX NZ "Large numbers" of children will continue to be killed and injured ...

Myley Maxwell was not wearing a helmet when she died of blunt force head trauma after a quad bike being driven by a 13-year-old girl hit a tree on a rural property in the state’s north in March 2017.

The tragic last words of a six-year-old girl who died after being flung off a quad bike into a tree have been revealed in an inquest. Myley Maxwell was not wearing a helmet when she died of blunt ...