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No freeze on blood donations as police join Emergency Services Blood Challenge
Winter is coming and Australian Red Cross Lifeblood has thrown down the gauntlet for all emergency services across Australia to roll up their sleeves and donate much needed blood and plasma during the colder months for the annual Emergency Services Blood Challenge.
The NSW Police Force is responding to the challenge with Assistant Commissioner Karen Webb, Commander, Traffic and Highway Patrol, attending the Parramatta Donor Centre today (Tuesday 1 June 2021) to kick off day one of the challenge.
“NSW police are proud to be part of this initiative for another year and we hope to move up the leader board in 2021, and of course, save as many lives as possible,” said Assistant Commissioner Webb.
A family are grieving after a beautiful soul drowned in tragic circumstances on Sunday.
Gold Coast dad-of-three Anthony Karos, 48, has been confirmed as one of two men who died in northern NSW over the Easter break.
Karos passed away when he was surfing at the popular Minnie Water Beach near Grafton on Sunday as his family and friends remember him as a beautiful soul .
Karos is believed to have drowned after the leg-rope from his surfboard became caught on rocks.
Labelled by family and friends as a beautiful soul , Anthony Karos (pictured above) passed away when he was surfing at the popular Minnie Water Beach near Grafton on Sunday
There were two deaths in Western Australia and one person killed in South Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory.
Police are worried that heavy rainfall set to strike southeast Queensland tonight will cause hazardous driving conditions, as thousands depart the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast and drive home.
The high number of fatalities this year has surpassed the 19 people killed on Australian roads over Easter in 2019.
The low figure recorded last year, just six deaths, may have partly been the result of fewer people travelling, because of the national coronavirus lockdown.
Over the four-day Easter weekend in 2018 and 2017, 13 and 12 people were killed on the roads, respectively.
A hoon completely shredded his tyres doing an huge burnout that covered a suburban street with smoke on Australia Day.
The SS Commodore was filmed performing the noisy stunt on Cairnes Road in Glenorie, in Sydney s north west, about 4pm on Tuesday.
Thick plumes of smoke blanketed the street, while the sedan s rear tyres were so badly destroyed the car s body to dropped to the road.
Police were called to Cairnes Road in Glenorie, in Sydney s north west, at about 4pm on Tuesday after receiving calls about a Holden SS Commodore performing burnouts
Thick plumes of smoke blanketed the street, while the sedan s rear wheels shredded causing the car s body to drop to the road
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Subscriber only The driver of stolen Landcruiser which led police on a chase into Coffs Harbour has evaded capture after crashing into a parked car. Just before 11pm on Thursday, December 31, highway patrol officers were doing speed checks on the Pacific Highway at Corindi Beach when they detected a Toyota Landcruiser allegedly exceeding the speed limit. Police were unable to stop the vehicle and a pursuit commenced towards Coffs Harbour. Officers then deployed tyre deflation devices in Korora which successfully deflated the tyres, however the Landcruiser continued into Price Street where it collided with a parked van. Three occupants ran from the car before police arrested an 18-year-old passenger and he was taken to Coffs Harbour Police Station and charged with breach of bail and carry in conveyance.