SUBMISSION
Thursday 9 April 2026
Submission to inquiry into e-mobility safety and use in Queensland
9 April 2026
AMA Queensland has provided a submission to the committee inquiry into the draft laws proposed to regulate e-mobility device use and safety.
Read our submission here
27 August 2025
AMA Queensland represented member concerns about injuries and deaths from e-scooter and similar devices as part of a parliamentary inquiry.
Members, particularly emergency physicians, paediatricians and surgeons reported significant increases in harms from e-mobility devices, especially among children. They wanted to see urgent improvements to current regulatory controls about rider age and the speed and safety requirements of devices. Education for both riders and drivers was also a top priority along with increased investment in active travel infrastructure like walkways and bikeways to better protect riders and pedestrians from traffic and accidents.
You can read the submission and view the full inquiry details on the parliamentary webpage, including President Dr Nick Yim’s appearance at the inquiry (see from 57:20 onwards).
Full inquiry details
Watch Dr Nick Yim's appearance
19 June 2025
Submission to the State Development, Infrastructure and Works Committee inquiry into e-mobility safety and use in Queensland
In response to the concerning number of fatalities and injuries from e-scooter and e-bike use, the Queensland Government launched a Parliamentary Inquiry into personal e-mobility devices to improve safety and address community concerns.
Doctors are horrified at the rapid increase in e-mobility injuries and deaths they are witnessing in our hospitals, especially of children. Our members have reported treating soft tissue damage, facial injuries including lost teeth and serious head injuries.
Medical practitioners are also rightly frustrated that e-mobility harms unnecessarily increase the stress on our overloaded public hospitals and health services at a time when they are experiencing some of the highest rates of burnout reported.
This inquiry presents an opportunity to urgently halt further deaths and harms through much-needed regulation and active travel investment and to relieve our health workforce of avoidable patient cases.
Our submission urges the Committee to prioritise community safety and implement sensible regulations including:
- restricting riders to persons aged 16 years and older
- mandating evidence-based maximum speed limitations on all e-mobility devices
- review current speed limits to ensure these are evidence-based and provide adequate protection for pedestrians and all e-mobility and other vehicle users
- improve enforcement of speed limits on public roads, drug and blood alcohol levels in line with legislation and mandated wearing of approved helmets
- requiring compulsory code-compliant safety equipment in line with relevant safety standards
These recommendations are fully set out in this submission.
We also urge the Committee to recommend the Queensland Government to:
- invest in separated road-e-mobility-pedestrian infrastructure
- implement a statewide education campaign
- provide adequate policing and other resources to enforce existing and new regulations
- advocate for consistent regulation
- improve automobile technologies
Lastly, we have also urged the Committee to make supporting recommendations for greater investment in active travel by the Queensland Government. This is aligned with the recommendations outlined in our Active Travel Position Statement.
Read our submission here