{"id":790889,"date":"2026-07-10T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790889\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:20:14","slug":"afl-news-2026-adelaide-crows-josh-worrell-shaken-up-after-car-accident-not-in-doubt-for-gold-coast-suns-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790889\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL News 2026: Adelaide Crows Josh Worrell shaken up after car accident; Not in doubt for Gold Coast Suns clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide<\/a> star Josh Worrell was involved in a car accident on his way to training on Friday, that has reportedly left him shaken and forced him to miss the session.<\/p>\n

9News Adelaide reporter Braden Ingram has stated that Worrell is OK after the crash, with the Crows insisting he will likely still play on Saturday night against Gold Coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Josh Worrell (left) and Taylor Walker of the Crows chat after a game.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Further reports surrounding the incident suggested the 25-year-old defender was shaken up by the crash and sent home.<\/p>\n

The Crows have not released a statement about the incident publicly, likely given Worrell has not been withdrawn from their 23-man squad for the Suns clash.<\/p>\n

The tall defender has played 70 games for Adelaide since being selected with pick 28 in the 2019 draft, and had a breakout season in 2025, making the All-Australian squad.<\/p>\n

Worrell has played 15 games for Adelaide so far this season, missing a game against Melbourne<\/a> for what the club insisted was illness, despite rumours of disciplinary reasons.<\/p>\n

Former Port Adelaide<\/a> star Chad Cornes suggested on SEN before the Showdown that the latter may have been a factor in his absence from the Dees game.<\/p>\n

Worrell did however return to the side and remains a key part of Adelaide\u2019s backline.<\/p>\n

A win for the Crows on Saturday night could see them finish the round inside the top four, while Gold Coast will be attempting to end a six-game losing streak that has seen them tumble to 14th on the ladder.<\/p>\n

Adelaide welcomes back star defender Wayne Milera for the match after battling a hamstring complaint. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide star Josh Worrell was involved in a car accident on his way to training on Friday, that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-790889","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\/790889","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=790889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}