{"id":446487,"date":"2026-01-30T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:17:10","slug":"cooper-bai-sidelined-after-car-crash-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446487\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Bai sidelined after car crash – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold Coast Titans<\/a> rookie Cooper Bai<\/a> has avoided serious injury after being involved in a car accident earlier this week, with the club taking a cautious approach under the NRL’s head injury protocols.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old was on his way to training at the Titans’ Parkwood headquarters when the collision occurred, prompting concerns of a potential head knock. While Bai has since been cleared of major injury, he has been sidelined from training as a precaution and placed under the NRL’s mandatory 11-day stand-down period.<\/p>\n

Titans coach Josh Hannay<\/a> confirmed the young forward was shaken but stressed the club was prioritising his welfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a bit shaken up by it all\u2026 He is a young fella that just had his first accident,\u201d Hannay told News Corp.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe showed some post-accident symptoms so we’ve taken a really cautious approach with him and will look after him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bai was a non-participant during Friday’s opposed session, instead watching from the sidelines in sandals, with Hannay noting the rookie had been \u201ca little bit off\u201d in the days following the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hasn’t trained the last couple of days. He is a little bit \u2018off’ after it all,\u201d Hannay added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully, it was relatively innocuous and he wasn’t speeding or anything. It was a legitimate accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Titans expect Bai to return to full training ahead of the club’s trial matches, with Hannay confident the forward will be available pending clearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be back up and running in time for the trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Bai progresses through the protocols as expected, he is set to be available for Gold Coast’s first trial against the Dolphins<\/a> on February 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast Titans rookie Cooper Bai has avoided serious injury after being involved in a car accident earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-446487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446487","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=446487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}