Instructors seek certainty on CCTV as ministers meet on learner driver safety
By Claudia Long
Driving instructors say they need national consistency on CCTV in their vehicles as transport ministers meet to discuss how to keep learner drivers safe from sexual harassment and assault.
#DriverEducation #RoadTransportIndustry #GovernmentandPolitics #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #TrafficOffences #SexualOffences #ClaudiaLong
Road-raging rider loses licence over bonnet ride to police station
By Wade Stephens
A road rage attack that saw a motorcyclist ride a P-plater's bonnet all the way to a police station has cost him his licence for eight months.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/man-clings-to-bonnet-during-road-rage-altercation/106024358
Boy, 15, charged over fatal Sunshine Coast e-bike crash that killed 8yo child
By Josh Dye
The boy has been charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, unlicensed driving, and driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/boy-charged-over-fatal-sunshine-coast-ebike-crash/106027202
Man sentenced for drink driving 10 times over legal limit
By Laura Mayers
A Victorian magistrate praises a man's engagement with counselling services during sentencing after being caught with a blood alcohol reading 10 times over the legal limit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/magistrate-sentences-driver-caught-ten-times-limit/105995684
Hundreds left without electricity when car hit power pole
An allegedly unlicensed driver will face court after he crashed into a Stobie pole at Minlaton on SA's Yorke Peninsula, cutting the power supply to surrounding areas, police say.
Kimberley police warn juvenile crime 'won't be tolerated'
By Gareth McKnight, Giulia Bertoglio, and Dunja Karagic
Children as young as 10 have been arrested as stolen vehicles are driven recklessly at police cars.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-24/kimberley-police-kununurra-juvenile-arrests/105930556
#Crime #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Teenagers #TrafficOffences #GarethMcKnight #GiuliaBertoglio # #DunjaKaragic
Highway patrol find $6 million drug haul in NSW vehicle stop
By Jess Scully
Highway patrol stopped the black luxury SUV on a major New South Wales highway for a random drug and alcohol test on Friday afternoon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-19/highway-patrol-drug-haul-in-hay-nsw-vehicle-stop/105909462
#DrugOffences #Crime #LawCrimeandJustice #Police #Courts #TrafficOffences #Cocaine #Drugs #JessScully
Father avoids jail after drunk motorbike crash with young daughter
By Wade Stephens
A Mildura father-of-six avoids jail after drunkenly crashing his motorbike while carrying his young daughter as a passenger.
Brett Button lawyers appeal 'severe' 32-year sentence for wedding bus crash
By Bridget Murphy and Nakita Jager
Lawyers for the driver of a bus that crashed in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, killing 10 people, have detailed his appeal against a 32-year sentence.
#Courts #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #TrafficOffences #Sentencing #BridgetMurphy #NakitaJager
Ethical risks of AI's use in traffic offences raised in new report
Queensland's transport department uses AI in its cameras to detect mobile and seatbelt offences, but a new audit has ordered called for a review into how that's done.
Bus driver in fatal Bruce Hwy crash pleads not guilty to dangerous driving
By Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
A Townsville bus driver involved in a crash that killed three women in north Queensland last year pleads not guilty to dangerous driving causing death or grievous bodily harm.
#Courts #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #TrafficOffences #GabrielleBecerraMellet
Hit-run driver's 'disgusting' messages aired in court
By Matt Garrick
One man died and another was injured after Jake Danby struck them with his car outside a Darwin shopping centre in 2024, with the driver then sending a series of "disgusting" text messages about the victims.
#Courts #Sentencing #TrafficOffences #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #MattGarrick
Driver who left Aboriginal man to die on Darwin road spared prison time
By Matt Garrick
One man died and another was injured after Jake Danby struck them with his car outside a Darwin shopping centre in 2024, with the driver then sending a series of "disgusting" text messages about the victims.
#Courts #Sentencing #TrafficOffences #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #MattGarrick
Driver charged after two men killed in Kangaroo Island ute rollover
A driver will face court charged over the deaths of two men in a ute rollover on KI on Wednesday night. In a separate incident in SA's far north, a pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when she was hit by a bus on the Stuart Highway.
14-year-old driver facing multiple charges after fatal crash
By Amelia Bernasconi
A 14-year-old boy has been charged over the death of his teenage passenger following a police pursuit in the NSW Upper Hunter.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/scone-crash-charges/105751540
#RoadAccidentsandIncidents #TrafficOffences #AmeliaBernasconi
Czech police arrest man for driving racing car on the highway
The driver, a 51-year-old man, had been spotted on the highways near Prague numerous times over the past six years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-08/ferrari-formula-1-driver-arrested-czechia/105748732
Breaking: Perth obstetrician Rhys Bellinge admits killing woman in car crash
By Joanna Menagh
Perth obstetrician Rhys Bellinge pleads guilty in a Perth court to the manslaughter of 24-year-old Elizabeth Pearce after ploughing into the car she was a passenger in earlier this year.
#Courts #Crime #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #TrafficOffences #JoannaMenagh
Driver who consumed entire cask of wine before crashing into police car handed suspended sentence
By Eva Blandis
A South Australian woman who drank an entire cask of wine before driving through a stop sign and into a police car has been handed a suspended sentence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/drunk-driver-injured-police-suspended-sentence/105609610
#TrafficOffences #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #Crime #Courts #EvaBlandis
Canberra man jailed for role in crash that killed 15yo passenger
By Elizabeth Byrne
A man sentenced over his part in a fatal crash in Canberra in April last year has been urged to use his time jail to get "as straight as possible".
#Courts #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #TrafficOffences #ElizabethByrne
Police concerned by drivers' need for speed on famous racetrack
By Hamish Cole
Mount Panorama-Wahluu is regarded as one of the greatest racetracks in the world and home to the Bathurst 1000, but police say it has a speeding problem.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-27/police-concerned-by-drivers-speeding-mount-panorama/105558500
