As part of this week’s “News Maker” show of Sarah’s Country, Simon Meade from the Motor Industry Association gives his opinion and insights around providing a subsidy on a non-regulated standard in light of concerns over ACC subsidy for quad bike roll-over protection.

Of the 154 deaths on New Zealand farms between 2011 and 2018, quad bikes accounted for 25% of them. Following ACC receiving 822 claims for quad bike injuries, costing $5.7 million, they are now subsidising the cost of crash protection such as roll bars on quad bikes.

But will the roll bars save lives or are farmers crashing due to diminished wellbeing and fatigue?

To read more, visit the article on Farmers Weekly: https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/agribusiness/view/quad-safety-gets-acc-support

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