A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged over a crash on the Barton Highway overnight in which a 19-year-old man died. The vehicle, that police now say was stolen, ran a red light before colliding with another vehicle. It is the ACT’s first road fatality this year.
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00:00 A crash on the Barton Highway late last night that had devastating consequences, claiming
00:08 the life of 19-year-old Joshua Stewart.
00:10 It's alleged a group of four teenagers was travelling in a stolen Toyota Avalon when
00:15 shortly before midnight the car was driven through a red light at the intersection of
00:19 Coringa Drive and Clary Hermes Drive, colliding with a Toyota Hilux utility.
00:24 The occupants of the sedan had to be cut free from the vehicle using the jaws of life.
00:29 The occupants of the Hilux received some treatment for their injuries, but they are otherwise
00:34 unscathed.
00:35 The 14-year-old alleged driver suffered serious injuries.
00:38 Two other 14-year-olds who were passengers in the car are also in hospital.
00:42 It's devastating.
00:43 There's so many families that are going to be affected by this.
00:46 First responders, witnesses, paramedics, everybody's affected when something like this and it makes
00:52 it even more tragic when they're 14 years old.
00:55 The 14-year-old alleged driver of the vehicle appeared in court this afternoon where he
00:59 was formally charged with culpable driving causing death and dishonestly driving a motor
01:03 vehicle.
01:04 He applied for bail but the magistrate raised some concerns about his living situation.
01:09 He was remanded in custody and will reappear in court tomorrow.
01:12 It's the first death on ACT roads this year.
01:16 Last year Canberra's road toll plummeted to four, after a horror period on the roads in
01:20 2022 when 18 people were killed.
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