The numbers are hardly apocalyptic ol' mate.
By the way, are you advocating R.O.P.S on horses and ladders as well? Plenty of people die every year falling off a ladder, a lot more than quads.
If you have a look at the following link you'll see that tractors are still a leading cause of death on farms despite the mandatory fitting of roll bars that came in years ago.
Also, as usual when it comes to statistics, they can be made to look as bad or as good as you want them to. An increase of 5 in the number of deaths can be written as
" An 84% increase!!! " Or, overstated as "
doubled" as I found in numerous articles about the numbers from 2019.
https://www.agrifutures.com.au/wp-conte ... 20-009.pdfHere's some data from the A.B.S, on the leading causes of death in Australia,
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.ns ... endocument ( Take note of the 3102 deaths caused by influenza/pneumonia in 2018 )
Now, before you go getting all fired up, I agree that any accidental death is 1 too many.
I'm not at all against safety measures, ( a seat-belt save my life years ago when I was cleaned up head-on by a bloke who decided that the speed limit and keep left rules didn't apply to him), but as I tried to explain earlier, the fitment of these types of structures significantly diminishes the versatility of quads and how I use them. My earlier point also, was that, ( as others have pointed out ), you cannot legislate to overcome "stupidity".
I worked on a mine site where the G.M and her lackeys decided that they could put in place a safety regime that meant that
any person on site could
safely do
any job. I'm sorry, but if someone is afraid of heights, no amount of training "modules" or safety devices is going to make that person safe to work at heights. Same for working underground, if someone is sh!t-scared of being down the hole and almost their whole attention is taken up worrying about the roof coming down, I don't want to be working with that person, they are the ones who get others hurt through their inability to focus on the job at hand. Then there are the blokes that no matter what the rules are, they will just do what they want no matter how stupid it is.
A comment made by one of my supervisors when discussing this type of "idiot-proofing" was that you just encourage
bigger idiots.