Two teenagers have died after a crash between an ebike and a motorcycle in the suburb of Greenbank, south of Brisbane, on Thursday night.
Queensland police said investigators believe the motorcycle was overtaking a vehicle in the Logan area when it collided with the ebike travelling in the opposite direction around 9pm. The bike, police said, is not believed to have had its headlights on at the time.
A teenage boy and teenage girl riding the ebike were both declared dead at the scene. The rider of the motorcycle was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition.
Investigators were looking into the incident and asked members of the public with any footage to come forward.
The crash came after a Queensland parliamentary inquiry recommended a ban on children under 16 riding compliant ebikes and e-scooters.
The report noted Queensland Health reported more than 6,300 e-mobility related emergency department presentations in the year to March 2025 – a figure thought to underestimate the true number of incidents.
More than 200 cases involved major trauma and more than 60 required intensive care, mainly for head and facial injuries, it said.
Under proposed rules, riders would be limited to a maximum of 10km/h on footpaths and have to hold at least a learner’s licence, with the exception of wheelchair and other accessibility device users.
Any device with a top speed above 25km/h would be defined as a motorbike, moped or other appropriate classification.
They could only be ridden on roads, and would have to be registered and covered by compulsory third-party insurance.
The Queensland transport minister, Brent Mickelberg, said earlier in March that the Crisafulli government would not bury its head in the sand over the need to reform regulations.
“There are clearly changes needed when it comes to e-scooters,” he said.
“We’ve received robust, comprehensive, and practical recommendations to deliver reform.
“Some of these recommendations may mean making tough decisions, but we need to make those decisions to keep Queenslanders safe.”
A University of Melbourne study found one in three Australian e-scooter deaths reported in the media from the start of 2020 to mid-2025 were children.
