{"id":750015,"date":"2026-06-21T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750015\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:01:17","slug":"boy-12-dies-when-allegedly-stolen-car-flips-in-cairns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750015\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 12, dies when allegedly stolen car flips in Cairns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 12-year-old boy has died after an allegedly stolen vehicle rolled off an embankment and flipped on its roof in Far North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to Stratford Parade in the Cairns suburb of Stratford at 4am on Sunday after reports of a single-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the Toyota wagon was reported stolen from Pomona Avenue, Mooroobool, one hour earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A car on its roof beside a road in Cairns.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234ce0697410f99b7d2f16b9442df97a.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police say three other people were in the vehicle. (ABC News: Rosanne Maloney)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Four people were in the vehicle at the time of the crash, including the 12-year-old boy, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was treated for life-threatening injuries but died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Three other people, aged 20, 22 and 19, were transported to Cairns Hospital and were in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The road was closed in both directions as investigators worked at the scene.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy has died after an allegedly stolen vehicle rolled off an embankment and flipped on its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-750015","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\/750015","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=750015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}