{"id":332418,"date":"2025-12-07T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:53:08","slug":"man-smashes-ambulance-windscreen-with-head-in-kalgoorlie-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332418\/","title":{"rendered":"Man smashes ambulance windscreen with head in Kalgoorlie-Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">St John WA are investigating an incident in Kalgoorlie-Boulder after a naked man smashed the windscreen of an ambulance with his head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Video of the incident, circulated on social media, shows the male clinging onto the bonnet of a moving ambulance van and repeatedly smashing his head into the windscreen, causing it to break.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An ambulance with a smashed windscreen.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7553bba24c3994f77eb00df599b00606\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The damaged van was removed from the scene by a tow truck.\u00a0 (ABC Goldfields: Macey Turner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">St John WA said the attending crew were initially responding to reports of an injured man on Piesse Street in Boulder at 10:37am. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">WA Police said they attended the scene to assist the St John Ambulance crew about 11:15am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yellow street signs, Hamilton St and Piesse St.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2149bcd8c0dc85ab4f3d09315c5df184\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The incident occurred on Piesse Street in Boulder.\u00a0 (ABC Goldfields: Macey Turner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, St John WA confirmed it was investigating the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;St John WA is aware of an incident involving an ambulance crew and a member of the public in Boulder this morning,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The organisation is investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident and will be working closely with WA Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;A man in his 20s has been transported to Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A blood stain on the road.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45205a59d910be606e4f58bba1522751\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">A man in his 20s was taken to Kalgoorlie Health Campus. (ABC Goldfields: Macey Turner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">St John WA has confirmed the ambulance officers in the van retreated safely and returned to the depot following the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St John WA are investigating an incident in Kalgoorlie-Boulder after a naked man smashed the windscreen of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9495,64,63,25266,29253,44,185885,4123,146435,185884],"class_list":["post-332418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ambulance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boulder","tag-head","tag-news","tag-smashed","tag-st-johns","tag-windscreen","tag-windscreen-damaged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332418","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=332418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}