{"id":493453,"date":"2026-02-20T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:47:10","slug":"17-year-old-boy-killed-in-serious-crash-at-crabtree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493453\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old boy killed in serious crash at Crabtree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy has died and another person is in a critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on Crabtree Road in the Huon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Police and emergency services were called to the scene near 383 Crabtree Road shortly before 9pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say initial inquiries indicate the male was a passenger in a silver Mazda sedan travelling west on Crabtree Road when the driver lost control of the vehicle and it collided with a power pole.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there was five occupants in the vehicle, believing speed was a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"57689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/e8c651de-k57glyf7lchpx2y_guzwg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e8c651de-k57glyf7lchpx2y_guzwg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"e8c651de-k57glyf7lchpx2y_guzwg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Emergency crews are working at the scene of the crash. Image \/ Pulse (File)&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/e8c651de-k57glyf7lchpx2y_guzwg-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/e8c651de-k57glyf7lchpx2y_guzwg-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e8c651de-k57glyf7lchpx2y_guzwg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>Emergency crews are working at the scene of the crash. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother passenger is in a critical condition at the Royal Hobart Hospital. The remaining occupants were taken for examination as well,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or relevant dash cam footage is asked to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at crimestopperstas.com.au, quoting ESCAD 436-20022026.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy has died and another person is in a critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-493453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493453","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=493453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}