On 3 August 2015 The UNSW TARS released results of their Quad Bike Performance Project. As a strategy to reduce injuries and fatalities from quad-bike use on farms, the Quad Bike Performance Project conducted by researchers from UNSW TARS aims to develop a consumer safety rating system for quad bikes. This strategy is part of a HWSA...

In this media release WorkCover NSW reports that the University of NSW Transport and Road Safety Unit has released the results of a world-first testing and research project into quad bike safety. WorkCover NSW funded the $1.3 million Quad Bike Performance Project designed to quantify the stability and crash worthiness of quad bikes and...

In this media release the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons calls on the Queensland Government to act swiftly on the recommendations handed down by the QLD coronial inquest into quad bike deaths. View the Royal Australian college of surgeons - media release (PDF file).

Following the NSW Sate Coroner’s Court release of its Coronial Inquest findings into nine quad bike deaths the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons published a media release calling on the NSW Government to act swiftly on the recommendations handed down by the NSW Inquest especially in regard to strategies to prohibit children...

An inquest into nine quad bike related deaths in NSW was held by the Deputy State Coroner, Sharon Freund. The State Coroner’s Court of NSW released the findings of the inquest on 26 November 2015. The Deputy State Coroner made recommendations in the areas of a quad bike safety rating system, Australian Standards for quad bikes,...

An inquest into the deaths of riders of quad bikes between 10 November 2012 and 27 December 2015 is scheduled to start in April 2016, before Coroner Simon Cooper at Hobart Magistrate’s court.

In February 2016 the University of Adelaide's Centre for Automotive Safety Research released the study Quad bikes in South Australia: an investigation of their use, crash characteristics and associated injury risks. The study, sponsored by SafeWork SA, examines the circumstances of fatal and non-fatal quad bike incidents in Sout...

The Queensland Government has launched the Statewide Plan for Improving Quad Bike Safety in Queensland 2016-2019. The plan has been developed by the Quad Bike Interagency Group, consisting of ten Queensland Government agencies involved in the use and administration of quad bikes. The plan acknowledges that quad bikes are used for both...