{"id":704838,"date":"2026-05-30T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704838\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:55:20","slug":"queenstown-man-seriously-injured-in-midland-hwy-dirt-bike-crash-at-kempton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704838\/","title":{"rendered":"Queenstown man seriously injured in Midland Hwy dirt bike crash at Kempton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old Queenstown man is in hospital with serious injuries after losing control of a dirt bike on the Midland Highway at Kempton early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police and emergency services were called to Constitution Hill around 5:50am on Saturday after the single-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>The man had been riding a yellow RM-Z250 Suzuki dirt bike southbound when he lost control and crashed, according to preliminary investigations.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital with serious injuries to his legs and arms.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"66183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/5271bde5-2bct0oba3h16eu1_hs6xr_j0wdc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5271bde5-2bct0oba3h16eu1_hs6xr_j0wdc.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5271bde5-2bct0oba3h16eu1_hs6xr_j0wdc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The rider lost control of a yellow RM-Z250 Suzuki dirt bike. Image \/ Stock&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/5271bde5-2bct0oba3h16eu1_hs6xr_j0wdc-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/5271bde5-2bct0oba3h16eu1_hs6xr_j0wdc-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5271bde5-2bct0oba3h16eu1_hs6xr_j0wdc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>The rider lost control of a yellow RM-Z250 Suzuki dirt bike. Image \/ Stock<\/p>\n<p>Police are now investigating the crash and are asking anyone who saw the yellow dirt bike on the Midland Highway at Kempton before the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Police thanked the community for their patience while investigations were carried out at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"66182\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/5271bde5-78q3x6dkzil7nsj_l9y7c_xrtq9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5271bde5-78q3x6dkzil7nsj_l9y7c_xrtq9.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5271bde5-78q3x6dkzil7nsj_l9y7c_xrtq9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Emergency services were called to Constitution Hill around 5:50am. Image \/ File&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/5271bde5-78q3x6dkzil7nsj_l9y7c_xrtq9-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/5271bde5-78q3x6dkzil7nsj_l9y7c_xrtq9-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5271bde5-78q3x6dkzil7nsj_l9y7c_xrtq9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>Emergency services were called to Constitution Hill around 5:50am. Image \/ File<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at crimestopperstas.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>Information can be provided anonymously, quoting reference ESCAD 068-30052026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old Queenstown man is in hospital with serious injuries after losing control of a dirt bike on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-704838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704838","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=704838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}