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| Subject: Outrageous! $40,000 fine for no quad bike helmets in NZ Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:06 pm | |
| A Marlborough farming couple has been fined $40,000 for not wearing helmets while riding their quad bikes.
Phillip Andrew Jones, 33, and Maria Anna Carlson, 30, were spotted by WorkSafe New Zealand inspectors riding a quad bike without helmets on a Havelock farm on multiple occasions since 2012.
The pair were absent from the Blenheim District Court when they were sentenced by Judge Tony Zohrab yesterday.
The court heard the pair, who have a share-milking partnership on the farm, were given multiple warnings by WorkSafe to wear helmets while on their quad bikes, but continued to be non-compliant.
Jones was seen riding the quad bike without a helmet twice in 2012, before a written warning was issued to him in March 2013.
He was again warned about wearing helmets in August last year, before a prohibition notice was issued in October last year, stating workers on the farm had to stop riding quad bikes without helmets.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/64225722/40-000-fine-for-no-quad-bike-helmets |
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