{"id":486521,"date":"2026-02-17T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:16:18","slug":"bathurst-politician-calls-for-solution-after-kangaroo-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486521\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathurst politician calls for solution after kangaroo crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LOCAL Bathurst politician says Christopher Mies\u2019 high-speed collision with a kangaroo in the Meguiar\u2019s Bathurst 12 Hour should be the catalyst for the installation of permanent fauna fencing.<\/p>\n<p>Mies was covered in blood upon emerging from Haupt Racing Team\u2019s Mustang GT3 after making impact at approximately 250km\/h down Conrod Straight.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred four months after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2726-Kai-Allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Allen<\/a> Bathurst 1000 near-miss of what would\u2019ve been similar magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernadvocate.com.au\/story\/9175931\/renewed-calls-for-permanent-fauna-fencing-at-mount-panorama-track\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Western Advocate<\/a>, councillor Warren Aubin stressed that it could be a matter of life or death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just mucking around saying we need to keep the kangaroos off the track,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2026-meguiars-bathurst-12-hour-official-program?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-12-hour-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to keep drivers from being killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re in a pretty hectic business where you can get hurt quite substantially doing what they do, but we don\u2019t want to add to that flavour and put more things out there for that to occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not on. We have to do something and we have to do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Temporary fencing is currently used.<\/p>\n<p>The next motorsport event at Mount Panorama will be the Bathurst 6 Hour at Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LOCAL Bathurst politician says Christopher Mies\u2019 high-speed collision with a kangaroo in the Meguiar\u2019s Bathurst 12 Hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-486521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486521","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=486521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}