Why is NZ so lax on the ATV deaths?

[PrincessBandit]

It seems to me lots of farmers try to use quads as tractors without the correct training and safety gear. Is that a fault of the quad or the person using it? A huge portion of fatal quad crashes are then narrowed down to poor maintenance coupled with a blase attitude toward safety. .................. Most farmers would just tell any authority to "bugger off" and then who do we get to actually police it?
Until farmers and other quad riders take responsibility for their own safety as I did, we will continue to have quad fatals. ATGATT

I wonder if there is the perception that "as long as it's on private property and not out where joe public is then it's our business how we operate our vehicles". Obviously the end result can be the same whether the accident has occured out on a public road or the back of someones farm, but I think there's a significant mindset of - you can't tell me what to do in the privacy of my own home/on my own property - going on. I'm guessing here, but mr and ms motorcyclist and car driver are much easier to come down on because of their greater potential risk to other road users and higher profile. After all, someone being a dick on the road is likely to draw attention from someone (police, pissed off drivers etc.). Someone being a dick on the farm isn't noticed until they suffer the consequences of their inattentiveness or lack of control of their vehicle. Somehow I don't think anyone would *555 them.....

[bogan]

I wonder if there is the perception that "as long as it's on private property and not out where joe public is then it's our business how we operate our vehicles".

Is that kinda like personal responsibility? I thought that shit was banned ages ago