Road safety
Reckless food delivery riders making footpaths ‘lawless’ in busy shopping strips
Melbourne business owners are taking matters into their own hands after witnessing speeding and collisions between delivery e-bike riders and pedestrians.
- Saria Ratnam
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Highway pursuit ends with ‘traumatic’ dog bites for man
Two men were arrested with the aid of police dog Stryker following a pursuit through several suburbs north of Brisbane.
- Rex Martinich
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- Victoria Police
One dead, two injured after two separate collisions involving trucks in western Victoria in one day
Emergency crews worked for more than an hour to free the bus driver after the crash involving a B-double carrying hay bales in Minyip in north-west Victoria.
- Cassandra Morgan, Angus Delaney and Alexander Darling
‘Reprehensible’: Man jailed for high-speed crash that killed grandmother
A beloved Queensland grandmother was killed and her daughter seriously injured when a man crashed into their car at high speed in a stolen vehicle before fleeing.
- Fraser Barton
‘You just have to go, go, go’: Injury fears as food delivery riders turn to e-bikes
Hospital staff report a surge in e-bike injuries among gig economy workers as calls grow for stricter registration of the cycles.
- Cara Waters
‘We will find those drivers’: Police investigate Chapel Street hoons
Hundreds of people watched on as a group of hoons descended on Chapel Street in South Yarra on Saturday night in the name of “bringing back Chap laps”.
- Ashleigh McMillan and Roy Ward
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- City life
Coroner calls for e-bikes to be registered as motorcycles
Coroner Audrey Jamieson said Nitin Haldipur Prabhu’s death was a tragic reminder of the importance for greater regulations of e-bikes.
- Hannah Hammoud
Driver killed father, injured boy after sending 44 Snapchats at 100km/h
Peter Agius wept in court as he learnt his fate over the fatal crash that robbed a six-year-old boy of his father and left him with a permanent brain injury.
- Emily Woods
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- Victoria
Grandfather dies two days after footpath crash that killed his wife
The 60-year-old man died on Saturday evening, two days after his wife was killed and grandson was injured in the Wantirna South crash.
- Gemma Grant
Victoria to weigh up elderly driver tests after Wantirna South crash
The government says there is a “valid question” over whether the state should make fitness-to-drive tests mandatory after fatal crash in Melbourne’s east.
- Patrick Hatch
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