{"id":216826,"date":"2025-09-11T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216826\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:18:10","slug":"girl-11-killed-as-car-plunges-into-dam-near-tenterfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216826\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 11, killed as car plunges into dam near Tenterfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was travelling in plunged into a dam near Tenterfield in northern New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency service crews were called to a site near the intersection of Bruxner Highway and Bryans Gap Road at Tenterfield at 3:30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the car crashed into the water after smashing into a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 11-year-old was unresponsive when pulled from the water and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver, a 50-year-old woman, was also rescued from the water by paramedics and taken to Tenterfield Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Tenterfield Mayor Bronwyn Petrie said she was &#8220;saddened by the tragic news&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;This is devastating to her family and also for the first responders at the scene,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have established a crime scene and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was travelling in plunged into a dam near Tenterfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[118375,4740,8046,118377,24658,12428,50,5239,118376],"class_list":{"0":"post-216826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-11-year-old-girl","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-car-crash","11":"tag-child-dies","12":"tag-dam","13":"tag-fatal-crash","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-road-trauma","16":"tag-tenterfield"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115182797358341583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}