{"id":899489,"date":"2026-09-21T00:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899489\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:46:20","slug":"7news-live-updates-driver-fighting-for-life-after-horror-crash-into-brick-fence-in-melbournes-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899489\/","title":{"rendered":"7NEWS live updates: Driver fighting for life after horror crash into brick fence in Melbourne\u2019s southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two teen boys have been involved in a deadly crash in rural South Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A ute and a sedan, both driven by 17-year-old boys from Renmark, crashed on the Sturt Hwy in Annadale, roughly an hour-and-a-half away from their homes, at 7.30pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The ute driver was airlifted to hospital fighting for life, SA Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The teen in the sedan did not survive the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">His passenger, a 23-year-old man also from Renmark, suffered minor physical injuries and was taken to hospital in an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Sturt Highway was closed for several hours but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The boy\u2019s death marks the 80th life lost on SA roads this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Investigations into the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Play Video<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old boy has been killed and another teenager is in critical condition following a collision between a ute and a car on the Sturt Highway near Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old boy has been killed and another teenager is in critical condition following a collision between a ute and a car on the Sturt Highway near Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teen boys have been involved in a deadly crash in rural South Australia. A ute and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1348,3698,33717,23800,48,647,44,5847,670,7481],"class_list":["post-899489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents-sydney","tag-courts-justice","tag-crime","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-sydney","tag-vic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899489","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=899489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}