{"id":337319,"date":"2025-12-09T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337319\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:27:41","slug":"ex-nrl-young-gun-in-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337319\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL young gun in hot water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ex-NRL star Curtis Scott will front court after he allegedly fled the scene of a drunken crash in Sydney\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former Melbourne Storm and Canberra Raiders centre allegedly drove while over the legal limit when he crashed his ute into a number of trees on Kennedy Crescent, Bonnet Bay, about 10.50pm on 15 June.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"COURT - CURTIS SCOTT\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/411e103e43d84f3f87a156061946c2b0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Curtis Scott has been charged after an alleged drunken crash. Picture: NCA NewsWire \/ Damian Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 27-year-old was arrested at his home nearby before he was taken to Sutherland Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some six months later, on Monday, Mr Scott was issued a number of Court Attendance Notices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He has been charged with drive vehicle under influence of alcohol, drive with middle range PCA, and negligent driving (no death or grievous bodily harm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said in a statement they will allege Mr Scott drove with a mid-range PCA which is anywhere between 0.08 and 0.15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s also understood that Mr Scott has had his driving licence suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former young gun has not played rugby league professionally since 2021, and he has moved instead to a career in combat sports, including boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is due to appear at Sutherland Local Court on 15 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL star Curtis Scott will front court after he allegedly fled the scene of a drunken crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4532,187806,187808,4466,187807,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-337319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canberra-raiders","tag-curtis-scott","tag-kennedy-crescent","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-mr-scott","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337319","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=337319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}