Neville Ian Anderson died in September 2014 after being crushed by a quad bike which rolled while he was working on Cullen Farm, Clarendon, near Milton. In her findings into the death, coroner Brigitte Windley issued a number of recommendations to improve quad bike safety and address a "persistent concern''. "Despite the public attention quad bike deaths have received, and the ongoing work done by government agencies such as WorkSafe and ACC ... quad bike deaths were reported to have reached a record high in 2016,'' she said. Ms Windley detailed other government initiatives rolled out in Australia to incentivise the farming community towards safer quad bike use. "It is imperative that we examine proposals that may improve quad bike safety and reduce quad bike trauma and death,'' she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 22, 2017 22:41 UTC