Skateboards and scooters should be banned from all public roads, according to the Queensland coroner who investigated the death of a teenage boy hit by a drunk driver.

At the very least, skaters and scooter riders on the road should be forced to wear helmets at all times and reflective gear at night, he recommended.

The Queensland Coroner wants skateboards banned on local roads. Credit:Angela Wylie

Skateboarder Ethan Stephenson, 14, died of head injuries on June 7, 2014, when drunk driver George Holford ran into him on Russell Island, in southern Moreton Bay.

Holford, who served nine months of a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death, told the inquest in the Brisbane Coroners Court late last year he did not remember seeing the boy about 5.15pm that day.