Road Accidents and Incidents

One in four of the 123 children who died in road crashes between 2004 and 2023 weren't restrained at all — even by an adult seatbelt.

A farmer living in rural South Australia has recently helped several drivers out of sticky situations along the unsealed roads near his home. He says they've been led astray by the GPS directions.

Driving in later life can bring its own challenges, and while rules around older road users vary widely across the country, options for navigating those challenges include licence assessments and conversations around so-called "driving retirement". 

It is believed the truck went through a guardrail on a hairpin bend on Bulli Pass, sending the vehicle down an embankment.

Police allege a group of boys, aged 12 to 15, stole a car from a home in Cairns and drove erratically to Innisfail and back before crashing into a tree, leaving a boy, 15, who was a passenger in the car with critical head injuries.

Police said the boy, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was trapped in the car after the crash. Three other boys have been arrested.

A family member of the victims tells a Tasmanian court: "I didn't just lose my mum and brother … I lost my family unit and I lost myself. I will never be me again."

A man has died in a collision with a wide-load transport vehicle near Gin Gin overnight — the sixth road fatality in the Bundaberg region in the past five weeks.

A teenage boy and a woman have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash near Nicholson Street and Victoria Parade.

A man has been charged and a toddler remains in hospital after an early morning collision that left six people injured in Deer Park.

A two-year-old boy has died after being struck by a vehicle at a primary school car park in Brisbane's south-west.

A drug affected driver, who initially suggested it was the woman she killed who caused a freeway crash in Perth’s south, is sentenced to nine years and six months in jail.

A County Court of Victoria judge says she believes a man due to be sentenced after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death may have left the state.

A man has told court of the incredible guilt he felt after five people died when his truck collided with a ute in northern Victoria in a crash he did not cause.

A joint taskforce aims to combat a rising number of crashes into low clearance rail bridges across south-east Queensland.

Australia is on track to record its deadliest year in more than a decade after the number of people who lost their lives on the nation's road passed 1,000.

Two men are fighting for their lives after a car collided with a freight train in far north Queensland. Emergency services were called to the incident in Cairns just before 7am.

A woman involved in a fatal road crash in the Bundaberg region has described the moment a van collided with her ute on Saturday night. A 25-year-old seasonal worker from Vanuatu was killed in the incident.

A senior police officer accused of crashing an unmarked car in Sydney's NorthConnex tunnel and leaving the scene to avoid being breath tested has been found guilty of mid-range drink driving.

A four-wheel drive transformed into a "lethal weapon" when a man who had barely driven before got behind the wheel and crashed into two young boys in Melbourne's west last year.