{"id":191718,"date":"2025-10-05T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191718\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:53:10","slug":"child-fights-for-life-after-crash-north-of-adelaide-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191718\/","title":{"rendered":"Child fights for life after crash north of Adelaide in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A six-year-old girl is in a critical condition following a devastating crash in Virginia, north of Adelaide, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Emergency crews rushed to the scene just after 11am, where a Toyota van and a Toyota ute collided at the intersection of King Rd and Penfield Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The young girl, a passenger in the van, was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two other children in the van, aged 10 and 11, along with the 42-year-old female driver from Murray Bridge, were also hospitalised with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The ute\u2019s occupants \u2014 a 37-year-old Virginia man and a four-year-old girl \u2014 were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The intersection remains closed in all directions as police and Major Crash investigators comb the scene for clues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police are urging motorists to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/woman-dies-from-suspected-drowning-in-swimming-pool-in-sydneys-northern-beaches-c-20243781\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Elderly woman dies after being pulled from swimming pool<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">0 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/leave-a-light-on-for-gus-south-australians-unite-in-heartbreak-as-search-ends-for-missing-boy-c-20242540\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Touching community gesture made in hope of finding missing outback boy<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old girl is in a critical condition following a devastating crash in Virginia, north of Adelaide, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3443,3698,43,44,22122,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-191718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-adelaide","tag-car-accidents","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sa-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}