{"id":503458,"date":"2026-01-09T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:54:12","slug":"act-records-first-road-fatality-of-2026-after-two-vehicle-crash-on-monaro-highway-near-royalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503458\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT records first road fatality of 2026 after two-vehicle crash on Monaro Highway near Royalla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 25-year-old man has died after a crash between a car and a truck on the Monaro Highway south of Canberra on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to the scene near the intersection of the Monaro Highway and Royalla Drive about 11:30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Paramedics treated the driver of the car at the scene before he was transported to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 25-year-old was declared dead on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It&#8217;s the first road fatality for 2026 in the ACT.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map showing two car crash sites at either end of the Australian Capital Territory.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a66426ce41141058e96229a29d082fee.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Two serious multi-vehicle crashes occurred within hours of each other in the Canberra region. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">ACT Police&#8217;s Major Collisions Team is investigating the circumstances of the Monaro Highway collision, with a report to be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are urging anyone who witnessed the incident and has not already spoken to them to contact <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersact.com.au\/make-report\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime Stoppers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">About an hour earlier, another multi-vehicle collision saw all northbound lanes of the Federal Highway at Bywong closed for several hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after that crash, which occurred south of Lake George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man has died after a crash between a car and a truck on the Monaro Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4746,207646,4740,4745,3534,7923,728,12649,225733,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-503458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-act","9":"tag-act-policing","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-canberra","12":"tag-emergency","13":"tag-fatality","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-stories","16":"tag-monaro-highway-crash-death","17":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115864539280616207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503458","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=503458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}