{"id":257410,"date":"2025-11-02T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257410\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:01:13","slug":"motorcyclist-becomes-acts-seventh-road-death-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257410\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist becomes ACT&#8217;s seventh road death in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-809993\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-809993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2024-09-18-Police-stock-photos-10-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Police car\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-809993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police are asking for any information about last night\u2019s crash. Photo: Michelle Kroll.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old Taylor man has become the seventh road fatality for 2025 after the motorcycle he was riding hit the rear of a parked truck in Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>About midnight last night (Sunday, 2 November, 2025), police and emergency services were called to the accident on Sandford Street, Mitchell, after a person saw a motorcycle and the rear of a parked b-double semi-trailer on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The person moved the rider from the fire however the 29-year-old Taylor man was already dead. This is the seventh road death in the ACT this year and the third involving a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>ACT Road Policing\u2019s Major Collision Team is investigating the circumstances of the accident, and a report is being prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Business operators in Sandford Street, Mitchell, are being asked to review CCTV footage from late Saturday evening immediately prior to and after midnight, and if footage of a motorcycle rider is observed, they are asked to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident who has not already spoken to police or has information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers via the <a href=\"https:\/\/act.crimestoppers.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crime Stoppers ACT website<\/a>. Please quote reference number 8205908.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for any information about last night\u2019s crash. Photo: Michelle Kroll. A 29-year-old Taylor man has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-257410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257410","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=257410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}