\u201cOur initial inquiries are ongoing into whether the crash was work-related \u2013 which will inform our next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n
The death has been referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, Burt\u2019s Trail Ride posted on its Facebook page that the next trail ride had been postponed until March 28.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with deep sadness that we advise our upcoming ride has been postponed following a serious accident on the track involving one of our riders.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to thank all those riders on the track and in the carpark who were so understanding under difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a time for reflection, respect, and support for those affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of consideration for the family, friends of the family, extended family and our wider riding community, we feel postponing our next ride is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Organisers also thanked Peak Safety Ltd (their medic), Matat\u0101 First Response, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter crew, Whakat\u0101ne police and St John Ambulance for their professionalism, care and support, along with their dedicated Burt\u2019s Trail Ride track crew.<\/p>\n
Burt\u2019s Trail Rides holds regular dirt bike events on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, providing 28km of track through 607ha of forest and farmland that caters for riders of all skill levels, from novice to pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur initial inquiries are ongoing into whether the crash was work-related \u2013 which will inform our next steps.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3549,11784,105510,84841,5338,111,43,139,69,10903,21529,4129,17705],"class_list":["post-315258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-halts","tag-inquiries","tag-makes","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-popular","tag-ride","tag-trail","tag-worksafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}