{"id":744630,"date":"2026-06-18T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:29:14","slug":"afl-news-2026-tony-modra-truck-crash-south-australia-footy-legend-fighting-for-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744630\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL News 2026: Tony Modra truck crash south australia footy legend fighting for his life"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Australian footy legend Tony Modra has reportedly been taken to hospital following a serious crash.<\/p>\n

South Australian Police released a statement on Thursday night saying officers responded to reports of a truck that had crashed into a tree on Range Road at Back Valley.<\/p>\n

\"Modra's<\/p>\n

Modra’s truck after the crash.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

\u201cThe driver and sole occupant of the truck, a 57-year-old Waitpinga man, was taken to hospital for treatment for serious injuries,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

He was airlifted to Flinders Medical Centre from the crash site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose with knowledge of the incident say there is hope he will pull through but his condition tonight is very serious,\u201d AFL reporter Ryan Daniels said during Channel Seven\u2019s broadcast of the Fremantle and Geelong match on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Modra played 118 games for Adelaide<\/a> between 1992 and 1998, kicking 440 goals, before playing a further 47 for Fremantle<\/a>, kicking another 148.<\/p>\n

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas joined in sending well wishes to the former footballer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMods is an SA icon who has never forgotten where he came from. Down to earth and just a really good bloke,\u201d Malinauskas said.<\/p>\n

Tony and his family are in our thoughts tonight, and we all hope he\u2019ll be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Thursday night football on Channel 7, commentator Brian Taylor said the news of Modra\u2019s crash was not what \u201cwe wanted to hear\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be extremely difficult for us now as a commentary team to get excited about what we\u2019re about to see here, because that is just tragic news and we hope things get better on from here on in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian footy legend Tony Modra has reportedly been taken to hospital following a serious crash. South Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-744630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744630","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=744630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}