Quad bike statistics
This page provides data on up to date and historical work-related quad bike fatalities per region and quad bike related serious harm notifications by MBIE region.
Notified Work-related quad bike fatalities 2006 to 2012
| Fatalities Notified | Calendar Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012† | Total |
| Northland | 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| Auckland | 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| Bay of Plenty | 0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Waikato | 1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
| Gisborne | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Hawke's Bay | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Taranaki | 0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Manawatu-Whanganui | 1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Wellington | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Canterbury | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1‡ |
2 |
| West Coast | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Otago | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Southland | 0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| Grand Total | 3 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
29 |
‡ Note that while the victim was riding a quad bike at the time of the accident, the cause of death was contact with high voltage.
† 2012 figures are provisional and subject to change.
Quad bike serious harm notifications by MBIE region
| SHI Notifications | Calendar Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Region |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
Grand |
|||
| Auckland | 5 |
5 |
5 |
2 |
17 |
|||
| Bay of Plenty | 7 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
16 |
|||
| Canterbury | 8 |
4 |
12 |
6 |
30 |
|||
| Gisborne | 3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
9 |
|||
| Hawkes Bay | 0 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
24 |
|||
| Manawatu-Whanganui | 2 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
17 |
|||
| Marlborough | 3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|||
| Nelson | 1 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
|||
| Northland | 1 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
|||
| Not Defined | 3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
|||
| Otago | 11 |
7 |
4 |
6 |
28 |
|||
| Southland | 4 |
8 |
9 |
13 |
34 |
|||
| Taranaki | 3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
|||
| Tasman | 1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|||
| Waikato | 5 |
6 |
14 |
13 |
38 |
|||
| Wellington | 1 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
10 |
|||
| West Coast | 2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
|||
| Grand Total | 60 |
60 |
73 |
67 |
260 |
|||
The statistics show the number of quad bike fatalities and quad bike related serious harm incidents, notified to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment under the Health and Safety in Employment (HSE) Act 1992. The statistics do not include fatalities in the Maritime or Aviation sectors or due to work-related crashes on the road as these are investigated by Maritime New Zealand, the Civil Aviation Authority and the NZ Police respectively.
