{"id":951247,"date":"2026-11-03T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951247\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:10:26","slug":"josh-worrell-releases-statement-after-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951247\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Worrell releases statement after court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/adelaide-crows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide Crows<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/josh-worrell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Worrell<\/a> has apologised in a public statement after being handed a fine and conviction in Adelaide Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>Worrell pleaded guilty last week to an aggravated charge of driving without due care after he struck a pedestrian in July.<\/p>\n<p>Worrell received a $2400 fine and was handed a conviction, as he was sentenced on Tuesday morning in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to again say how sorry I am for what happened. I accept full responsibility, and the penalty handed down today,&#8221; Worrell said in a statement released by the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost importantly, I&#8217;m extremely sorry for the impact this incident had on the person involved. I remain very grateful that the consequences weren&#8217;t more serious. It&#8217;s something I have reflected on a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a difficult and important lesson, and with the court process now complete, I&#8217;m looking forward to putting this matter behind me and making sure I learn from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that Worrell ran a red light and struck the victim, who avoided serious injuries but suffered a 2-centimetre laceration to his head and other minor injuries<\/p>\n<p>Worrell spent three hours with the victim and took him to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has not been disqualified from driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows defender Josh Worrell has apologised in a public statement after being handed a fine and conviction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-951247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951247","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=951247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}