Two teenagers have been killed in an electric bike crash in a state that’s considering a blanket rider ban for children under 16.<\/p>\n
Early investigations indicate a Harley Davidson overtook a vehicle on Middle Road in Greenbank, south of Brisbane, on Thursday evening when it struck the e-bike travelling in the opposite direction, according to police.<\/p>\n
The e-bike did not have headlights on at the time, police believe.<\/p>\n
The teen boy and girl e-bike riders were declared dead at the scene, while the male motorbike rider was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
Police are investigating the circumstances of the crash and appealing for witnesses or motorists with footage to come forward.<\/p>\n
The horror crash comes after a Queensland parliamentary inquiry recommended a ban on children under 16 riding compliant e-bikes and e-scooters.<\/p>\n
The report noted Queensland Health reported more than 6300 e-mobility related emergency department presentations in the year to March 2025 – a figure thought to underestimate the true number of incidents.<\/p>\n
More than 200 cases involved major trauma and more than 60 required intensive care, mainly for head and facial injuries, it said.<\/p>\n
Under proposed rules, riders would be limited to a maximum of 10km\/h on footpaths and have to hold at least a learner’s licence, with the exception of wheelchair and other accessibility device users.<\/p>\n
Any device with a top speed above 25km\/h would be defined as a motorbike, moped or other appropriate classification.<\/p>\n
They could only be ridden on roads, and would have to be registered and covered by compulsory third-party insurance.<\/p>\n
Queensland Transport Minister Brent Mickelberg said earlier in March that the Crisafulli government would not bury its head in the sand over the need to reform regulations.<\/p>\n
“There are clearly changes needed when it comes to e-scooters,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve received robust, comprehensive, and practical recommendations to deliver reform.<\/p>\n
“Some of these recommendations may mean making tough decisions, but we need to make those decisions to keep Queenslanders safe.”<\/p>\n
A University of Melbourne study found one in three Australian e-scooter deaths reported in the media from the start of 2020 to mid-2025 were children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers have been killed in an electric bike crash in a state that’s considering a blanket rider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,85,42,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":["post-326845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326845","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=326845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}