{"id":623321,"date":"2026-04-22T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:31:10","slug":"ballarat-man-bailed-for-dozens-of-offences-including-culpable-driving-arrested-at-the-wheel-in-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623321\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballarat man bailed for dozens of offences including culpable driving arrested at the wheel in Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Ballarat man on bail for culpable driving causing death has been arrested after police say they found him slumped in the driver&#8217;s seat of a car with stolen numberplates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police arrested the man in the early hours of yesterday morning in the nearby suburb of Canadian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man, who police say had been released on bail on approximately 60 charges, allegedly attempted to flee the scene when woken by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the man attempted to drive off but did not realise the car was in neutral gear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was taken into custody, and police then searched the car, allegedly finding a small amount of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man had previously been released on bail after being charged with two counts of culpable driving causing death following a fatal crash in 2025, in which two people died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was remanded into custody and will reappear at the Ballarat Magistrates&#8217; Court next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ballarat man on bail for culpable driving causing death has been arrested after police say they found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[301958,64,63,17192,49927,167239,48,159387,1300,44],"class_list":["post-623321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-60-offences","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bail","tag-ballarat","tag-ballarat-magistrates-court","tag-crime","tag-culpable-driving","tag-death","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623321","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=623321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}