Australia’s peak automotive body is urging the federal government to rethink plans to mandate rollover bars on ATVs or quad bikes, warning the move threatens the viability of dealers and could actually cost lives. The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) says the rules, to come into effect this year, also fly in the face of safety research and have little regard to recent coronial recommendations, which have backed a tougher approach to training and helmet compliance. The chamber’s concerns and moves by overseas manufacturers to possibly abandon the Australian market, come at a time when quad bike accidents claim an average of 16 lives in Australia each year. By mid-December the death toll in 2020 was 21, with about half of those the result of rollovers according to figures compiled by Safe Work Australia. In 2019 the federal government revamped regulations for quad bikes and similar all-terrain vehicles, or …