{"id":947171,"date":"2026-10-31T04:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T04:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:24:14","slug":"two-dead-one-critical-in-horror-crash-near-byron-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947171\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, one critical in horror crash near Byron Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have died in a motor vehicle crash in Suffolk Park, south of Byron Bay.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the scene on Broken Head Road just after 10.30am to reports of a three-vehicle crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Two people have died after a crash on Broken Head Road. \u00a0 (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

On arrival, officers from the Tweed\/Byron Police District found the driver of one vehicle, believed to be a woman in her 50s, had died.<\/p>\n

The driver of a second vehicle, a man believed to be in his 60s, also died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They have yet to be formally identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The passenger of the second vehicle, a woman in her 60s, was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics and taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a critical condition by the Westpac Helicopter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Emergency services have closed the road. (Supplied: Live Traffic)<\/p>\n

The occupants of the third vehicle were uninjured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police have established a crime scene and are investigating the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A report will be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Broken Head Road is closed between Beech Drive and Broken Head Reserve Road with diversions in place.<\/p>\n

The public is urged to avoid the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Crosses mark the site of a 2006 crash on Broken Head Road. (ABC North Coast: Samantha Turnbull)<\/p>\n

Road’s tragic history\u00a0<\/p>\n

This month marks two decades since four teenagers were killed in a horrific crash<\/a> on the same stretch of road.<\/p>\n

On October 22, 2006, five boys celebrated a friend’s birthday at a Chinese restaurant in Lismore before heading to Byron Bay.<\/p>\n

Only the 17-year-old driver made it home.<\/p>\n

Sixteen-year-olds Corey New and Paul Morris, and 17-year-olds Bryce Wells and Mitchell Eveleigh died after the car ran off the road just south of Byron Bay at Broken Head.<\/p>\n

The driver was sentenced to four years in jail, with a non-parole period of two years.<\/p>\n

As inquiries continue into today’s crash, anyone with information or dashcam video is urged to contact Tweed\/Byron police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died in a motor vehicle crash in Suffolk Park, south of Byron Bay. Emergency services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1154,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-947171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crash","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947171","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=947171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}