Photo: FileThe second quad bike death at a farm in the space of five years has prompted a coroner to call for mandatory safety standards to be introduced in New Zealand. On May 3, 2015, farm assistant Kaye Marie Blance was found dead underneath an overturned quad bike on the Westport farm she worked at. She died when the spreader-trailer she was driving flipped and caused the quad bike to roll on top of her. "It's frustrating that New Zealanders continue to die unnecessarily in quad bike accidents while centralised efforts to improve quad bike safety lag behind other countries. Figures from the coronial service show 99 people have been killed in quad bike incidents since 2007 with seven in 2018 alone.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 19, 2019 23:48 UTC