<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Queensland's peak motoring body has joined the call for a crackdown on illegal ebikes after two children were recently killed in accidents within days of each other.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) and four other major organisations have come together to call for all non-compliant devices to be immediately impounded before another young person is hurt.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The organisation also wants highway patrol police to conduct speed checks on e-bikes.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/baby-priyas-bill-passes-federal-parliament/04a85206-f640-4071-ace0-2fdd2e6e2c65" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'Her name is law': Priya's parents win major change so no family suffers how they did</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Our problem is not to do with e-bikes. E-bikes are great and are a great asset to the community. Our problem is illegal motorbikes," RACQ Head of Policy Michael Kane said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It comes after 15-year-old Fudou Stovell was killed when he lost control of his e-bike on the Gold Coast on Saturday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>At the time, police revealed he was illegally riding the electric motorbike on the road.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-ebikes-peak-organisations-unite-to-call-for-crackdown-after-deaths-of-children/dfd84e15-7a66-4145-8a17-1ead19e1cc18" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Just days after, eight-year-old Zeke Hondow collided with another e-bike rider and died on the Sunshine Coast.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>RACQ was joined by the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Motor Trades Association of Queensland, Bicycle Queensland and Queensland Walks in a desperate call for action.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We're the only state that allows these children to ride e-scooters under the age of 16. It's very clear that supervision doesn't work because the average age of injury is around 12 years old," Royal Australian College of Surgeons Professor Bhavesh Patel said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/perth-osborne-park-football-club-suspended-after-player-dressed-up-as-stephen-hawking/a4c98a3c-e08c-4de0-8279-ce588d0e8022" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Football club banned for two years over Stephen Hawking costume controversy</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There are dangers to the community, people are being hurt, people are being killed. We need these things out of our parks and off our footpaths," Motor Trades Association of Queensland General Manager Brad Flanagan said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Queensland Police on Monday launched a new operation to crack down on e-mobility devices across the board, which will run until the end of January.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"What we do know is that people can modify these bikes illegally, are riding them above speed limits and are riding them without safety gear," Acting Assistant Police Commissioner Adam Guild said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Parents are being urged to make sure their children are riding legal e-bikes.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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