{"id":587603,"date":"2026-04-05T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:05:13","slug":"multiple-motorcycle-deaths-mar-easter-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587603\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple motorcycle deaths mar Easter long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Easter break has been tragically marked by several road deaths involving motorcyclists around the country.<\/p>\n

In the latest incident, emergency services were called to South West Rocks on the NSW mid north coast on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

They found a rider had crashed on the road before becoming trapped under a nearby vehicle.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews worked to free him before he was treated by paramedics for critical injuries, however, he died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Earlier, in far-north Queensland, a 31-year-old man lost control of his quad bike on a local road at East Palmerston near Innisfail on Saturday.<\/p>\n

His green Kawasaki struck a pole and he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Nearly two hours later, a black Honda motorbike collided with a Kia Cerato in Thornlands, about 30km southeast of the Brisbane city centre.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old rider died after being transported to hospital with critical injuries. The Kia driver was uninjured.<\/p>\n

In South Australia, two men, one riding a Honda motorcycle and the other a Suzuki, \u00a0died in a collision at Paracombe in the Adelaide Hills about 2.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Another SA man, riding a Harley Davidson, died on Friday after police said he crashed into a traffic light.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police are investigating the death of a road crash south of Brisbane. (Darren England\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

While in NSW, a man in his 40s, travelling with several other motorbike riders, crashed on the Monaro Highway near Cooma on Friday and died at the scene.<\/p>\n

In other road deaths, a mother-of-four from interstate was killed after a crash in Queensland.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old Victorian was a passenger in a Ford hatchback travelling on School Road in Logan Reserve, south of Brisbane, about 9pm on Saturday when her car was hit head-on by a Ford Falcon utility.<\/p>\n

The victim, who had been returning from a family celebration, died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Her 21-year-old niece sustained serious leg and back injuries, while a one-year-old child in the car miraculously escaped harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Easter break has been tragically marked by several road deaths involving motorcyclists around the country. In the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,107347,287300,17724,44,10580,95311],"class_list":{"0":"post-587603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-critical-injuries","11":"tag-easter-break","12":"tag-emergency-services","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-road-deaths","15":"tag-south-west-rocks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587603","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=587603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}