{"id":793044,"date":"2026-07-11T07:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:21:13","slug":"yennora-man-critical-after-being-found-on-the-side-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793044\/","title":{"rendered":"Yennora: Man critical after being found on the side of the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-fp5\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> man left fighting for life on the side of a road with head injuries was assaulted in an early morning attack.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the married father-of-three had been out on a walk for about 30 minutes at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-fp5\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yennora<\/a> in the city\u2019s west on Saturday morning before he was found by a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police believe a Sydney man left fighting for life on the side of a road with head injuries was assaulted in an early morning attack. Police said the married father-of-three had been out on a walk for about 30 minutes at Yennora in the city\u2019s west on Saturday morning before he was found by a member of the public.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/84ee4da9e1a4c2a56c41c9c8abd4dde6e375a43788ce6c32e520d4371d9c5de0.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Police have been called to Yennora to investigate the incident.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>The local found the man on Orchardleigh Street at 4.40am and called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/nsw-police-jdi\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was treated at the scene and rushed to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>He has undergone surgery for head injuries and is in a critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s wife and his children are by his bedside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NSW Police detective acting inspector Brenton Sommerville addresses the media after a 74-year-old man was found injured in Yennora.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6ae9eb065e2f3d304861cda88c920e2856b7d550cfa95bb16aef293c6c2fd1c8.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">NSW Police detective acting inspector Brenton Sommerville addresses the media after a 74-year-old man was found injured in Yennora.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/nsw-police-jdi\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Police<\/a> detective acting inspector Brenton Sommerville said earlier the cause of the man\u2019s injuries was unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very thankful to all of the members of the community this morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened in the early hours of the morning where an elderly vulnerable member of the community was left on the roadside and their actions greatly assisted the police response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/nsw-police-jdi\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> are appealing for anyone in the area of Orchardleigh Street between 4am and 4.40am with information or dashcam footage to call Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll information that the public can provide will assist us with this investigation,\u201d Sommerville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seems to be a remote and isolated incident, it\u2019s not something that\u2019s typical of the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would encourage members of the community to go about their activities as they normally would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working very, very hard to bring the person responsible to justice as quickly as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police have taken items from the scene further examination.<\/p>\n<p>Sommerville said the man and his family were not known to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police believe a Sydney man left fighting for life on the side of a road with head injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-793044","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\/793044","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=793044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}