Langford Park quad bike rollover: Nine-year-old girl is thrown from vehicle in Western Australia accident
- A nine-year-old girl has died in a horrific quad bike crash
- The vehicle rolled over at Langford Park in Jarrahdale, WA
A nine-year-old girl has died after she was thrown from a quad bike in a horrific crash along a biking trail.
An off-road quad bike was being driven along a track in Langford Park in Jarrahdale, about 45 km south-east of Perth, when it rolled at about 5pm on Saturday.
The young girl, who was a passenger on the vehicle, was thrown from the bike and seriously injured.
Emergency services were called to the scene but the girl died from her injuries.
The male rider, 34, was rushed to Armadale Hospital with minor injuries.
A nine-year-old girl has died in a horrific quad bike crash on a trail in Langford Park (pictured) in Jarrahdale, Western Australia
The young girl was thrown from the bike and fatally injured while the male rider, 34, sustained minor injuries (stock image)
Police have urged members of the public who saw the bike being ridden in the lead up to the crash or with further information to contact Crime Stoppers.
It comes a month after a four-year-old girl died in another quad bike accident on a rural property in south-west Queensland.
The girl had been riding the bike with another girl before the vehicle rolled over at a property in Isla, near Theodore.
The four-year-old girl was critically injured and rushed to Toowoomba Hospital before she died from her injuries, while the other girl sustained an arm injury.
Back in April, a girl, 14, was killed in a quad bike crash on a rural property on the outskirts of Wilcannia – in northwestern NSW.
That incident came days after a man, 34, died in a crash in Central Victoria and another man, 27, was killed when his quad bike collided with a motorbike in Alice Springs.
It comes after a four-year-old girl was killed in a quad bike crash on a rural property in south-west Queensland while another girl, 14, died in a similar accident back in April (stock image)
Quad bike safety has been an area of focus for the ACCC which lobbied for tougher standards in 2018 as record levels of all-terrain vehicle-related deaths in Australia peaked.
New safety regulations were introduced in 2019 in a bid to reduce quad bike-related injuries and fatalities.
In 2022 it was found more than 90 per cent of all new quad bikes sold in Australia had complied with the national safety standard,
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