{"id":639612,"date":"2026-04-30T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:21:11","slug":"curtis-scott-learns-drink-driving-fate-after-sydney-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/639612\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Scott learns drink driving fate after Sydney car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NRL young gun Curtis Scott has walked from a Sydney court without conviction after he drove drunk and left the scene of a crash in the city\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<p>The former Melbourne Storm and Canberra Raiders centre drove while over the legal limit when he crashed his ute into a number of trees on Kennedy Crescent, Bonnet Bay on June 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/nrl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police say the 28-year-old then left the scene and he was later arrested at his home nearby and taken to Sutherland Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Some six months later, in December, Mr Scott was issued a number of court attendance notices.<\/p>\n<p>Former NRL player Curtis Scott has been sentenced after a drunken crash. Picture: NewsWire \/ Nikki ShortSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n<p>He appeared before the Sutherland Local Court on Thursday for sentencing, dressed in a black suit. <\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2019s barrister Paul McGirr said his client\u2019s reading was on the lowest possible end of the middle range PCA.<\/p>\n<p>Scott drove, the court was told, and later blew a reading of 0.08. <\/p>\n<p>He was initially charged with drive vehicle under influence of alcohol, drive with middle range PCA, and negligent driving (no death or grievous bodily harm).<\/p>\n<p>However, two of the charges were withdrawn, with Scott instead entering a guilty plea to mid-range PCA.<\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2019s licence was suspended after the incident, meaning he has been off the road for nearly a year. <\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to an 18-month conditional release order without conviction. <\/p>\n<p>The former young gun has not played rugby league professionally since 2021, and he has moved instead to a career in combat sports, including boxing.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL young gun Curtis Scott has walked from a Sydney court without conviction after he drove drunk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,309761,4532,42840,227775,309763,309760,309762,309759,4582,309758,309766,4466,761,762,673,158,677,107934,309767,46382,85,117390,309765,79981,670,309764,4515,9020],"class_list":["post-639612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bonnet-bay","tag-canberra-raiders","tag-car-crash","tag-conditional-release-order","tag-court-attendance-notices","tag-drink-driving-fate","tag-drive-vehicle","tag-drunken-crash","tag-jarome-luai","tag-leaving-sydney-police","tag-legal-limit","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-paul-mcgirr","tag-pictured-leaving-sydney","tag-richard-dobson","tag-sports","tag-surry-hills","tag-sutherland-hospital","tag-sutherland-local-court","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-police-centre","tag-wests-tigers","tag-young-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639612","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=639612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}