'A good start': Researchers say quad regulations should go further

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A leading safety expert says studies into quad bike accidents have not found a fatality where a roll bar was fitted.

A leading safety expert says quad bike regulations need to go further but new rules are a "good start".They're calling for new regulations to go further

Quad bikes are inherently unstable and are very prone to flipping over, according to many years of research and over 1,000 crash tests.on quad bikes, also known as all-terrain vehicles , which now cannot be sold without rollover protection equipment. Professor Grzebieta said, as a result, the jury was not still out on rollover protection bars being needed on quad bikes, despite what theHe said a number of court cases in Australia have accepted that "there is a major defect in the quad bike design"."Our research over more than 10 years has proven that.""But it has worked, as we have seen the number of fatalities drop.

 

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