{"id":934469,"date":"2026-10-20T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934469\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:14:16","slug":"driver-pleads-not-guilty-over-crash-that-killed-two-cyclists-on-canberras-gungahlin-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934469\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver pleads not guilty over crash that killed two cyclists on Canberra’s Gungahlin Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 40-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to charges over a double fatal collision in Canberra’s north.<\/p>\n

Bridie Lee, 32, and Ryan Riethmuller, 39, were among five cyclists struck by a blue Hyundai Accent on Gunghalin Drive in Palmerston at about 6:20am on August 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The group of cyclists was struck by a blue Hyundai Accent on Gunghalin Drive in Palmerston on August 27. (ABC News: Luke Stephenson)<\/p>\n

Members of the public, including an off-duty nurse and police officer, assisted the injured cyclists while they waited for emergency services to arrive.<\/p>\n

Ms Lee died at the scene, while Mr Riethmuller died in hospital a week later.<\/p>\n

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Bridie Lee was a member of the Canberra Bilbys Triathlon Club.\u00a0 (Supplied)<\/p>\n

The incident prompted an outpouring of grief in the cycling community, with hundreds of mourners taking part in a tribute ride for the victims who had been involved in Canberra’s triathlon community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Riethmuller was a member of the Canberra Bilbys Triathlon Club. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

Last month, Thi Phuong Ngoc Nguyen was summonsed to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court today on two counts of culpable driving causing death and one count of negligent driving occasioning\u00a0actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n

She didn’t appear in person this morning, and was instead represented by her lawyer, Mitchell Greig, who entered not guilty pleas to all charges and sought a date for a pre-hearing mention.<\/p>\n

The case is due to return to court in January next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to charges over a double fatal collision in Canberra’s north. Bridie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28222,2666,501103,2667,56279,1300,5864,501102,43,2668,44,501104,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-934469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-act","tag-bridie-lee","tag-canberra","tag-cyclists","tag-death","tag-driver","tag-gungahlin-drive","tag-headlines","tag-local-stories","tag-news","tag-ryan-riethmuller","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934469","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=934469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}