{"id":205666,"date":"2025-10-11T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:59:08","slug":"man-struck-by-reversing-truck-at-rubbish-tip-dies-of-critical-injuries-in-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205666\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck by reversing truck at rubbish tip dies of critical injuries in Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">An elderly man has died after he was hit by a reversing truck at a rubbish tip in <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/canberra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canberra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The force of the crash pushed him into the rubbish collection area Mugga Lane Resource Management Centre in Symonston about 2.45pm on October 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 78-year-old man from Pearce, in Canberra\u2019s south, suffered critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Paramedics treated him at the tip before taking him to hospital, where he died on Saturday.<\/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\">Because the accident happened in a \u201croad-related area\u201d, the death is being considered a road fatality, and is being investigated by ACT Road Policing\u2019s Major Collision Team, ACT Policing said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/negligent-charges-laid-over-truck-crash-death-of-teen-tamworth-cowboy-jimmy-webster-c-20313380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Charges laid over death of young Aussie cowboy<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/serious-fears-for-three-people-after-plane-crashes-at-shellharbour-airport-in-nsw-c-20313712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Tragedy as three people killed in fiery plane crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">0 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly man has died after he was hit by a reversing truck at a rubbish tip in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[63564,64,63,8984,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-205666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-act-news","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-disaster-and-emergency","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205666","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=205666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}