{"id":647539,"date":"2026-05-03T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:55:19","slug":"teen-fighting-for-life-after-hit-and-run-on-rural-north-queensland-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647539\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen fighting for life after hit and run on rural North Queensland highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A teen has been critically injured in a hit-and-run in North <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/qld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 18-year-old man and a 25-year-old man were both hit while walking along the Kennedy Hwy at Mount Garnet on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">They were struck by a car heading in the same direction as them, near the Mount Garnet Rodeo grounds about 2.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The younger pedestrian suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to Cairns Base Hospital, where he remains in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 25-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and was taken to Atherton Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The vehicle which hit the men did not stop to help them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Investigations are ongoing, as police search for the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Anyone who may have been travelling on the Kennedy Hwy between Atherton and Mount Garnet between 2.30am and 4am on Sunday, \u201cparticularly those with dashcam footage\u201d are urged to come forward, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/jefferson-lewis-charged-with-murder-after-death-of-missing-nt-girl-kumanjayi-little-baby-c-22226721\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Murder charge laid after five-year-old girl found dead<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/qld\/motorcyclist-fighting-for-life-after-horror-crash-at-redland-bay-intersection-south-of-brisbane-c-22226755\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Motorcyclist fights for life after horrific intersection crash<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen has been critically injured in a hit-and-run in North Queensland. The 18-year-old man and a 25-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3698,8984,43,44,8690,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-647539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-car-accidents","tag-disaster-and-emergency","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-queensland-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647539","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=647539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}