{"id":431417,"date":"2026-01-23T04:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431417\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:11:10","slug":"toddler-dies-after-being-struck-by-car-in-emerald-central-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431417\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler dies after being struck by car in Emerald, central Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are investigating a fatal traffic incident which killed a toddler in central Queensland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to Jade Street in Emerald, about 270 kilometres west of Rockhampton, before 5pm on Thursday, after reports that a two-year-old girl had been hit by a blue Holden Trailblazer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A spokesperson for the Queensland Police Service said the girl was taken to Emerald Hospital with life-threatening injuries and died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The incident happened on a public road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the incident or have any information or footage to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a fatal traffic incident which killed a toddler in central Queensland.\u00a0 Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48073,42840,225827,114459,225828,225826,44,155044,225825],"class_list":["post-431417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-accident","tag-car-crash","tag-child-hit-by-car","tag-emerald","tag-emerald-hospital","tag-jade-street","tag-news","tag-toddler-death","tag-toddler-fatal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431417","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=431417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}