The premier has promised new electric bike rules, days after two boys were killed in separate crashes, but not before Christmas.

An eight-year-old boy died on the Sunshine Coast on Thursday, when two e-bikes collided at Mountain Creek about 3.30pm on Thursday.

A 15-year-old boy died two days later after crashing a Surron Ultra Bee electric dirt bike on Broadbeach Boulevard in Broadbeach, on the Gold Coast, just after 3am.

“I’m genuinely sad for what’s happened,” Premier David Crisafulli said from Townsville on Sunday.

“We are taking this so seriously … change is coming.” Loading

But the premier is resisting pressure to instigate changes by Christmas, saying the government would wait for the parliamentary inquiry into e-bikes and e-scooters to publish its findings.

The inquiry

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