{"id":50787,"date":"2026-07-15T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/50787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:16:09","slug":"adelaide-crows-player-josh-worrell-to-face-court-over-port-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/50787\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows player Josh Worrell to face court over Port Road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Adelaide Crows defender Josh Worrell has been reported by police and will face court over a traffic crash last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Worrell, 25, was allegedly involved in a <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-07-10\/adelaide-crows-defender-josh-worrell-pedestrian-crash\/106903910\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106903910\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collision involving a pedestrian on Port Road at Woodville on Friday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement, police said the pedestrian \u2014 a 29-year-old man \u2014 allegedly &#8220;sustained injuries and was taken to hospital by the driver&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following investigations, the 25-year-old driver was reported for aggravated driving without due care and failing to present to police within 90 minutes after a collision which resulted in injury,&#8221;  police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the crash happened about 8:30am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Worrell will appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Friday, the Adelaide Football Club confirmed in a statement that one of its players had been involved in a vehicle accident involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Following the crash, Worrell missed the Crows&#8217; morning training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But he lined up for the Crows in the club&#8217;s 79-point win over Gold Coast on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The club has been contacted for comment, but at a media conference on Tuesday, Crows coach Matthew Nicks briefly alluded to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a pretty challenging few days for Josh [that] he&#8217;s working through after his accident,&#8221; Nicks said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We&#8217;re just doing whatever we can to support him through that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows defender Josh Worrell has been reported by police and will face court over a traffic crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,77,1991,3009,36170,10849,36169,15660,36172,36171,2223],"class_list":["post-50787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-afl","tag-crash","tag-crows","tag-defender","tag-injured","tag-josh-worrell","tag-pedestrian","tag-port-road","tag-reported","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}