{"id":593962,"date":"2026-04-08T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593962\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:52:17","slug":"teenager-dies-after-crashing-bike-at-canberras-stromlo-forest-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593962\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies after crashing bike at Canberra&#8217;s Stromlo Forest Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A teenager has died after crashing his bicycle while riding at Canberra&#8217;s Stromlo Forest Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the 14-year-old boy came off his bike at about 2:40pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was treated at the scene and taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, but later died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The area is being considered as a road related area as Stromlo Forest Park is open to the public and designated for use by cyclists,&#8221;  an ACT Policing statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">As a result, police said the teen&#8217;s death brought the ACT&#8217;s road toll for 2026 to eight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial view of the park, with tracks through the grass.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/150b66cfaf334444516fae29f1ede6ab.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Stromlo Forest Park, in Canberra&#8217;s west, has more than 50 kilometres of mountain biking trails.\u00a0 (Supplied: World Trail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An investigation is being conducted by ACT Road Policing&#8217;s Major Collision Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident and has not already spoken to them to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has died after crashing his bicycle while riding at Canberra&#8217;s Stromlo Forest Park. Police said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2666,3170,3171,2667,1154,1300,10852,36506,43,12979,2668,18572,44,1158,17574,289906,22810,12628,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-593962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-act","9":"tag-bicycle","10":"tag-bike","11":"tag-canberra","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-death","14":"tag-dies","15":"tag-emergency","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-injuries","18":"tag-local-stories","19":"tag-mountain-biking","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-services","23":"tag-stomlo-forest-park","24":"tag-teen","25":"tag-teenager","26":"tag-top-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topnews","29":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593962","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=593962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}