The Active Mobility Advisory Panel will look into whether brakes should be required for bicycles, following the death of a young girl who was riding her friend's fixed-gear bike in January.
Fixed-gear bicycles generally do not have hand-operated brakes, and rely on the rider's pedal resistance to come to a halt.
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