New stats on Gold Coast E Bike deaths & injuries

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Gold Coast has experienced a massive spike in e
bike presentations to Gold Coast Hospital University Hospital, with four
people dying from crashes in two years.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Can you read this one?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
A new report?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Read this one?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Will you read it?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
You've got to say.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
E bike crashes skyrocket by six hundred and fifty percent.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, it's massive. Data from the hospital's emergency department shows
two fatalities occurred in twenty twenty four and another two
so far in twenty twenty five, and the report to
the Council's Transport Committee on Tuesday reveals from January twenty
twenty two to November twenty twenty four, there was a
six hundred and fifty percent increase in the e bike

(00:56):
accidents and presenting to emergency.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
I heard this the other day from a friend who's
a nurse and we were will you with me? And
we were like, oh, what's going on in an emergency?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
It was with you was when we were doing the
fundraisers at the hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
And they said, oh, it's just e bikes. At the moment,
bikes it was in there.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
That was the two things that everyone was in for.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, but they said, they actually said, and they looked alarmed,
that e bikes is a massive problem. And she said,
you won't believe how banged up you see kids when
they come in from these accidents.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
My daughter was asking for one. She wants a fat fish.
I didn't know what she was saying at first. It
was like, what do you want a fat fish? Go
off fishing with a grandad? Then if you go, and
then it's a bike. And she really wants one, and
I know she's not having one. I've said to her
she's got to buy it. So now, of course that's
making a work harder, which is equally annoying. But I
just am so in my pit of my stomach nervous

(01:50):
for if she does get one.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
And I'm saying, you need a motorbike helmet.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
I want you to wear full like motorbike gear, you
know the leavers, like I want you.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
To wear full leathers.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
We're telling teenage girl to wear that is just that's
not going to wear it at the end of the
street and you're wrecking my hair.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
But we go to work.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
We actually thought we'd have the phones and asked, have
you had a knee bike injury? If it's gone up
six hundred and fifty percent, you're there, you're listening. My
girlfriend's son had one and it wasn't his fault. That's
the thing like that. It's trying to tell teens it's
not often your fault. We as drivers are not expecting
these things. They're fast, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, we don't want to just hear about accidents where
you know that the kid or if you are the
kid calling that you were doing a mono and being irresponsible.
We want to know the ones that, in general, the
speed got too much on you or well.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
No, this is what happened to my friend's kid. He
was going along and the person that was going through
the intersection, so he had right away if he was
a bike or a motorbike, but they didn't see him
and just pulled straight out in front of him. So
luckily he wasn't hurt too badly, and there was CCTV
and it worked out it was the driver. They didn't
look carefully and they just ran straight into him and

(03:01):
off the bike and hurt.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's pretty terrible.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think the fact that they're they're faster, kids are
taking more chances. I mean, kids are putting themselves in
positions like they're riding in them. They're riding on the
road because of the speed as though they're a motor vehicle.
But they're not registered or insured. So you can have
two kids on a knee bike that are in the
middle of the road, not to the side, in the

(03:26):
middle of the road because they've got the speed to
actually go through in intersections at the same speed as
cars would be and they feel like they've got that
right away. Whereas they shouldn't be on the.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Road, No, they should be on the footpath. But see
if from the footpath on the.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Side of the road, yes, yeah, I think you're not
allowed on the footpath with bikes.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
It should be where the pushbikes go.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
But they're not everywhere. But they're not everywhere.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's the problem. So when my kids, when my friend's
kid got hit, there was no it was a suburban road.
There was no bike bikelne Yeah, there's not bike lanes
everywhere because we haven't caught up to this, and so
I would want my child to be on the footpath
to be safer, But then I don't want them to
be on the footpaths going that speed in case they
hurt somebody else.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Or a car backs out of driveway.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, it's because you're at speed. Yeah you can't stop.
So just have you been heard? You know someone that's
been hurt? What happened? Let's scare the hell out of them.

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