Crashes news headlines

Within 48 hours of being granted bail, a 17-year-old accused of killing a man in a crash had gone on the run.

A dark coloured vehicle travelling north along Albany Highway at Maddington allegedly struck a pedestrian near a 7-Eleven, according to police.

Police believe both vehicles were travelling in opposite directions when one of the vehicles veered onto the wrong side of the road.

Shannon Cox was allegedly behind the wheel of a Toyota Prado when it collided with a road train towing two trailers, and a Suzuki hatchback on Brand Highway near Cataby.

A young girl has helped steer her school bus to safety after the driver suffered a suspected heart attack on the Gold Coast.

A 16-year-old boy has been killed after a car full of teenagers crashed into a tree near Port Stephens.

The newlyweds were travelling up a steep hill when the golf buggy slowed and tipped.

Ashburton resident Will Taylor, 28, was driving to soccer training when he was killed in an alleged hit-run.

Charlie Stevens, 18, died in hospital from an irreversible brain injury after he was struck by a car at Goolwa in November.

Christopher Dylan Joannidis, 30, has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving over a crash that killed five people on a busy highway near the Victoria-NSW border.

A Queensland Police spokesperson said two vehicles, including a car towing a caravan, collided with a truck.

A teen accused of driving a stolen Jeep that killed another driver was checked on by police hours after the crash and found in bed with a doona pulled up to his chin.

Thirty-three people were on board a Greyhound coach when it collided with a four-wheel-drive towing a caravan on the Bruce Highway.

A man has died after a car struck a pole in a horror crash in Brisbane's southside.

The family of a woman killed in a horrific crash in Queensland is mourning the loss of the much-loved wife, mother and grandmother.

The Pacific Highway is closed southbound north of Newcastle after a semi-trailer truck crashed down a steep embankment early this morning.

A father and his young daughter were inside the home but escaped with only minor injuries.

The 28-year-old has been charged with 20 offences after crashing an allegedly stolen ute into a house and trying to swim away from police during three hours of chaos on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

The passenger car reportedly drove in the wrong direction and collided with two other cars just before hitting the pedestrians.

"I just woke up and seen us hitting the caravan," the passenger, who didn't want to be named, said.

Three women were killed in the collision with a towed caravan on the Bruce Highway yesterday.

Police allegedly found methylamphetamines in the cabin of the truck that hit multiple cars before ploughing through a church carpark and into a primary school classroom.

A driver has died and two passengers are fighting for life after a car crashed into a tree in Melbourne's west.

A Mercedes sedan and a white Mitsubishi Rosa mini-bus collided at the intersection of Bussell Highway and Tuart Drive in Yalyalup, near Busselton.

A Holden Commodore mounted a roundabout before colliding with a retaining wall just before 1am today.

CCTV footage captured the moment several people standing outside a church were narrowly missed by the out-of-control truck and trailer.

The bus driver has been taken to hospital for assessment.

Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5pm (1am AEST) near the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.

Blues night at the West Croydon and Kilkenny RSL was interrupted when the Adelaide RSL club was hit by a car.

The California Highway Patrol said the truck was carrying at least 16,000 pounds of avocados when it collided with two other vehicles and flipped over in the early hours of Monday morning.

Stacey Disbray said she was connected on a phone call to Rhyce Harding as he was allegedly dragged 100 metres by a ute along Jersey Road in Blackett about 8.45am yesterday.

The rolling car came to a rest on its roof, with the sole occupant sustaining fatal injuries.

The 32-year-old woman was a passenger in a boat that crashed into a riverbank on the Hawkesbury River near Wilberforce.

A heartbroken family has revealed the emotional toll of losing a husband and father killed in a crash when a police officer failed to stop at an intersection.

The victim's family requested Liam Murray, a senior associate at KCL Law, not serve jail time over Erin Bentley's death in 2022.

A woman in her 40s, was the sole survivor of the crash after her two children aged 9 and 15 died at the roadside along with their father.

A father and his two children have died and the kids' mother is fighting for life after a crash in Queensland's Western Downs.

The man has yet to be formally identified but is believed to be aged in his 80s.

Judy Liddy accidentally hit a rideshare car on Grantham Street in West Brunswick, which left both vehicles with minor damage.

Button will spend days in court listening to the impact Australia's deadliest road crash in decades has had on the families of those killed and the surviving victims.

Three-month-old Arlo was left fighting for life but succumbed to his injuries two days after his mum, Amy.

On June 11 2023, the coach crashed at a roundabout near Greta while transporting 35 guests from a wedding venue in the Hunter Valley to Singleton.

A man has been charged after an allegedly stolen dual-cab utility rolled and crashed into a fence in the early hours of yesterday morning.

One person is dead and six more injured after a cattle truck and three cars crashed in Central West NSW.

Two amateur aviators have cheated death after their parachute rolled out of control during a take off in central Victoria.

A woman has been rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a dual cab ute crashed in the early hours of this morning in Brisbane's south west.

Police have made a fresh appeal for help after five people were seriously hurt, two critically, in a crash in Brisbane's south west last night.

Initial reports suggest a Mercedes-Benz and a Toyota Landcruiser collided, seriously injuring five people at Forest Lake.

The pursuit came to an end in Dundas after the allegedly stolen vehicle crashed near a petrol station overnight.

More than 21,000 vehicle insurance claims were analysed after drivers hit an animal. Here's what the data reveals about the biggest animal collision hotspots in the country: