{"id":691651,"date":"2026-05-24T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:46:10","slug":"boy-fights-for-life-after-bloomsbury-motorbike-crash-in-northeast-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691651\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy fights for life after Bloomsbury motorbike crash in northeast Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A young motorbike rider has been involved in a serious crash with a van in Queensland\u2019s northeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 14-year-old boy was riding a KTM motorbike when he crashed head-on with the Toyota Hiace\u00a0on Lindeman Dr at Bloomsbury about 2.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\"> The boy suffered life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to Townsville Hospital in a critical condition.<\/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 van driver, a 42-year-old local woman, was not physically injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police are urging anyone who saw the van or motorbike before the crash to contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">NOTE: Queensland Police incorrectly advised at 8.14pm Sunday that the boy had died.  This was corrected at 9.46pm and the story has been returned to its original version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe 14-year-old boy remains in hospital on life support and police are liaising with the hospital,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/sydney-scientists-capture-body-fighting-cancer-cells-in-groundbreaking-discovery-c-22324710\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Major cancer breakthrough as immune cells captured devouring live melanoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/innisfail-man-who-allegedly-amputated-kalman-tals-leg-with-circular-saw-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-c-22313138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I want it off\u2019: Chilling details emerge in circular saw amputation murder trial<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">3 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young motorbike rider has been involved in a serious crash with a van in Queensland\u2019s northeast. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,3698,44,8690],"class_list":["post-691651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-accidents","tag-news","tag-queensland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691651","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=691651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}