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Cops’ impassioned plea to drivers after WA’s road toll reaches highest in a decade
A further four people have died on WA roads on a horror second last day of the year taking the state’s road toll to 186 deaths.
- by Hamish Hastie and Rebecca Peppiatt
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‘I could just hear him screaming’: Australian mum and son trapped under NYC taxi
Rebecca Stewart said she doesn’t know how she and her nine-year-old boy survived when a taxi jumped a kerb and hit pedestrians outside the Macy’s flagship store.
- by Riley Walter and Daniel Lo Surdo
Ezra Mam issued with NRL breach notice
The NRL has issued the Brisbane Broncos star with a breach notice after he pleaded guilty to drug driving and driving without a licence earlier this month.
- by Alex Condon
‘We are heartbroken’: Bus driver mourned after fatal Hume Highway crash
The Greyhound coach was travelling from Melbourne to Sydney when it collided with a truck in the early hours of Saturday.
- by Sarah McPhee
Boy, 2, dies after being hit by car during Brisbane school’s pick-up time
Durack State School is organising counsellors for students and staff following the “tragic incident” in its carpark on Thursday afternoon.
- by William Davis
Five hospitalised in three-vehicle pile-up on Gold Coast
A crash involving three vehicles – including a bus and stolen car – on the Gold Coast Highway late Friday night has left at least five people injured.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Two women die in separate WA crashes, Perth man charged after police pursuit
This weekend has seen three serious traffic incidents in the state, two of them tragically involving fatalities in Carlisle and Norseman.
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Driver charged after horror crash following police pursuit
Police have linked the allegedly stolen SUV with the theft of another car in south-west Sydney earlier in the day. A critical incident investigation into the crash is under way.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Riley Walter
Today presenter pays emotional tribute to ‘hero’ preschool worker killed in crash
Tearful Alex Cullen called Eleanor Bryant “generous, wonderful and caring” after she died saving preschool children from the path of a water tanker.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Woman dead, three-year-old injured after truck crashes into preschool at Riddells Creek
A 43-year-old speech pathologist is dead and a three-year-old boy has been seriously injured after a water tanker ploughed into a preschool’s playground in a small town north of Melbourne.
- by Erin Pearson and Caroline Schelle
‘They wouldn’t even know who I am’: Injured traffic controller speaks from hospital
In his first public comments since being hit by a car on a busy Brisbane road, a traffic controller has slammed companies over their attitudes to safety.
- by Cloe Read
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