{"id":599529,"date":"2026-09-13T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599529\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:30:10","slug":"shocking-dashcam-footage-shows-truck-nearly-hitting-sydney-schoolgirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599529\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking dashcam footage shows truck nearly hitting Sydney schoolgirls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A Sydney truck driver has been charged after the heart-stopping moment he almost hit two schoolgirls waiting for a crossing last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The incident, caught on dashcam camera, occurred shortly after 8am on Thursday in the northwestern suburb of Rouse Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">New South Wales police said a truck driver swerved past vehicles before ploughing through a red light at the intersection of Windsor Rd and Cemetery Blvd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;In doing so, the truck allegedly hit a kerb where two teenage girls were standing, before allegedly driving away,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The girls sustained minor injuries, with the incident reported to police later that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Officers spoke to a 26-year-old man at a home in Mount Pritchard on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was issued a Court Attendance Notice and charged with drive recklessly\/furiously or speed\/manner dangerous, not stop at stop line at red light, motor vehicle, not give particulars to owner of damaged property and fail to stop and assist after impact cause injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was due to appear before Blacktown Local Court on September 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a coroner slams our drinking culture, Trump brushes off AI concerns, and Celine is back. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney truck driver has been charged after the heart-stopping moment he almost hit two schoolgirls waiting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-599529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}