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Composite: Police have released vision in relation to an alleged dangerous driving incident in the Moreton District yesterday, 23 July. Police dog Stryker was deployed in the search when the men fled the vehicle.

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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The bus driver was trapped for more than an hour after it rolled in country Victoria.

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
Police arrest Andrew Julian Stewart-Smith after he fled the scene of a fatal hit-and-run.

‘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
Injuries from e-bikes are on the rise.

‘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
A car does a burnout on Chapel Street on Saturday night.

‘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
Coroner Audrey Jamieson described Victroria’s regulations on e-bikes as “suboptimal”.

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
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Peter Agius has been sentenced to six years in prison after killing a father and injuring his son in a crash.

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
A toddler and his grandparents were hit by an out-of-control car in Wantirna South on Thursday.

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
A toddler and his grandparents were hit by an out-of-control car in Wantirna South on Thursday.

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
Police said it was too early to determine whether speed played a part in the tragedy.

Elderly driver yet to be interviewed over crash that killed woman, injured two-year-old

A woman is dead and a man and a little boy have life-threatening injuries after they were hit by a car near a playground in Wantirna South.

  • Grant McArthur, Alexander Darling and Hannah Hammoud

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