Well, the utterly insane new e-mobility laws have come into effect in Queensland now. The above article highlights just how ridiculous the situation is when you look at the road death toll. Some of the more pertinent points are:
“How many people die as a result of ebikes in Queensland?
Queensland recorded its worst road toll in 16 years in 2025, with 306 deaths. There have already been 206 fatalities in 2026, a 7.9% increase on the same time last year, according to Department of Transport and Main Roads data.
Almost all of them were people either driving or a passenger in a car, riding a motorbike or killed in a crash involving a heavy freight vehicle.
There have been three fatalities involving people using a non-compliant e-mobility device in 2026.
There is no specific category covering legal ebikes, but an inquiry into the bill heard that just one person had been killed in a crash involving a legal ebike in Queensland in 2025, a 79-year-old woman who was hit by a car on Bribie Island in July.
In March two teenagers died after an ebike crash with a motorbike south of Brisbane, though police could not say at the time whether their ebike was legal.”
The corollary of that is, compared to the woeful and ever increasing road death toll caused by cars, trucks and motorbikes, virtually nobody on or around legal pedal assisted e-bikes was ever in danger but because the regressive, out of touch Queensland govt doesn’t like active transport and is friends with the car industry who feel financially and culturally threatened by an uptick in e-bike use, these laws were forced in via our inadequate unicameral parliamentary system. And remember that no other place on Earth besides the likes of North Korea has bike laws as regressive as these.