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- Friday, 29 August 2025 at 5:51 pm
Shepparton Highway Patrol officers have charged a man following a crash in Kialla earlier this year.
Emergency services were called to reports a Holden utility crashed into a light pole before striking multiple trees along the Goulburn Valley Highway near Riverview Drive at about 11.15pm on 3 July.
The driver of the Holden, an 18-year-old Mickleham man, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
His passengers, a 19-year-old Shepparton man and a 19-year-old Shepparton woman, were both taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The 18-year-old man has since been charged with 11 offences, including:
- (x 2) negligently cause serious injury
- (x 2) dangerous driving causing serious injury
- reckless conduct endangering life
- endangering persons
- exceed prescribed concentration of drugs
- drive speed dangerous
- driving or using an unregistered motor vehicle
- fail to ensure passenger occupy seat/seatbelt
He was bailed to appear before Shepparton Magistrates’ Court on 29 August.
Katherine McLeod
Media Unit
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