{"id":813996,"date":"2026-07-21T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:37:13","slug":"afl-legend-tony-modra-shares-post-surgery-photos-after-truck-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813996\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL legend Tony Modra shares post-surgery photos after truck crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide Crows legend Tony Modra has posted a photo update, as he recovers from serious injuries sustained in a truck crash last month.<\/p>\n

In a social media post, the two-time All-Australian AFL star said he was “getting out and about”, and praised the medical staff who “saved my life” and “put me back together with a few titanium plates”.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old also shared two post-crash photos \u2014 one showing him being embraced in a hospital bed during his fourth day in intensive care, and the other with his family which he captioned as being one month later.<\/p>\n

Modra was injured in June<\/a> when the truck he was driving hit a tree at Back Valley, near Victor Harbor on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.<\/p>\n

He later underwent facial surgery.<\/p>\n

“I’m getting out and about a bit now, and slowly catching up on everything I missed over the last month,” Modra wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

“I’m so humbled to learn how many people were cheering these incredible medical teams on \u2026 and our family too.<\/p>\n

“I’ll never be able to thank everyone enough.”<\/p>\n

\"Adelaide<\/p>\n

Modra during his fourth day in intensive care. (Instagram: tonymodraofficial)<\/p>\n

Modra played football in SA’s Riverland region before debuting for the Crows in 1992.<\/p>\n

He was leading goal-kicker at the Crows for five straight seasons and played State of Origin football, winning the league’s Coleman medal in 1997.<\/p>\n

After 118 games for the Crows, Modra played 47 for Fremantle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows legend Tony Modra has posted a photo update, as he recovers from serious injuries sustained in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[28222,638,64,63,55,639,358762,1154,3899,1202,44610,9489,1314,85,1369,358502,25976],"class_list":["post-813996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-accident","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-back-valley","tag-crash","tag-injury","tag-instagram","tag-post","tag-recovery","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-surgery","tag-tony-modra","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813996","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=813996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}