{"id":74866,"date":"2026-08-18T12:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/74866\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:38:33","slug":"third-person-charged-over-crash-in-allegedly-stolen-vehicle-that-killed-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/74866\/","title":{"rendered":"Third person charged over crash in allegedly stolen vehicle that killed boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 22-year-old man has been charged over the death of a 12-year-old boy who was a passenger in an allegedly stolen vehicle that crashed in Far North Queensland in June.<\/p>\n

Mhurrigan Burns is facing nine charges, including three counts of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death or grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n

Other charges relate to him allegedly breaking in to steal the car, driving the vehicle while over the alcohol limit and driving while on a disqualified licence.<\/p>\n

One charge is in relation to an alleged breach of bail.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

All three surviving occupants have been charged in relation to the crash. (ABC News: Rosanne Maloney)<\/p>\n

He is the last of three surviving occupants in the car to be charged.<\/p>\n

Police allege that on June 21, Mr Burns broke into a property on Pomona Avenue and stole a Toyota Fortuna before driving the vehicle to the Cairns suburb of Stratford.<\/p>\n

Police were called to the scene after 4am, following reports the car had rolled off an embankment.<\/p>\n

A 12-year-old boy died at the scene after being thrown from the car during the crash.<\/p>\n

Mr Burns and two other passengers, a 19-year-old Yarrabah woman and 20-year-old Oscar Samual Lee Savage, were taken to Cairns Hospital.<\/p>\n

\"Flowers<\/p>\n

Flowers remain at the site where the 12-year-old boy died. (ABC News: Conor Byrne)<\/p>\n

Mr Burns’s matters are before the courts.<\/p>\n

Mr Savage and the 19-year-old woman have been charged with offences relating to the theft of the vehicle and other driving-related matters.<\/p>\n

Mr Savage is due to return to court next month.<\/p>\n

The woman is due to appear in court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man has been charged over the death of a 12-year-old boy who was a passenger in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,108809,312,2028,6146,29310],"class_list":["post-74866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-breach-of-bail","tag-crime","tag-fatal-crash","tag-stolen-car","tag-stolen-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74866","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=74866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}