{"id":224257,"date":"2025-10-19T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224257\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:47:09","slug":"horror-weekend-of-motorbike-crashes-as-four-riders-killed-on-aussie-roads-within-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224257\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror weekend of motorbike crashes as four riders killed on Aussie roads within hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Motorcyclists were behind a grim spike in the national road toll on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Four riders were killed in separate deadly crashes that all occurred within less than four hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">One rider, a man in his 30s, died shortly after he was struck by a ute in the eastbound lane on Richmond Rd at Marsden Park in Sydney\u2019s northwest about 3.30pm 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\">Passing drivers stopped and unsuccessfully tried to save the rider, as the ute driver fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police launched a search for the alleged driver, a woman with a shaved head who was wearing white jeans and a blue singlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">PolAir and a Police Dog Unit were involved in the search, as the major road was closed to traffic between Elara Blvd and St Marys Rd. It has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The alleged hit-and-run driver has not yet been found.<\/p>\n<p>Rider hit by truck<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Just over two hours earlier, another motorbike rider was killed in rural NSW about two hours south of Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The man in his 50s was struck by a truck carrying farm machinery on Oallan Ford Rd at Windellama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Passers-by tried to help the man, but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The truck driver was taken to Goulburn Hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n<p>Single-vehicle crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In Queensland, a 65-year-old man died in a single-vehicle motorbike crash in Ravenshoe, a rural town in the Tablelands Region, about 3.15pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He was riding a black Triumph motorcycle on Wooroora Rd when he crashed and died.<\/p>\n<p>Teen killed<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In South Australia, a teen rider was struck by station wagon on the winding roads of the Adelaide Hills about 2.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 19-year-old Walkley Heights man was riding his Kawasaki motorcycle when he was hit by a Toyota station wagon on Gorge Rd and died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The man and woman in the car were not injured.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/south-east-queensland-on-alert-as-right-mix-of-ingredients-could-trigger-severe-storm-outbreak-c-20389352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Queensland in firing line as \u2018dangerous storm cells\u2019 predicted<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/two-women-dead-third-seriously-injured-in-bellingen-crash-in-northern-nsw-c-20389155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Two dead, one seriously injured in horror NSW crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorcyclists were behind a grim spike in the national road toll on Saturday. 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