Farmers urged to get quad bike training

Two deaths so far this year as inspector calls quads the second-most dangerous machine on farms

Farmers have been urged to get training to use quad bikes after two deaths from accidents with the all-terrain vehicles in Ireland so far this year.

A senior inspector at the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) described the vehicles as the most dangerous machines on farms, second only to tractors, and called for the wearing of helmets to be made mandatory.