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The ACT has recorded its second road fatality for 2025 following a collision between a bus and motorcycle earlier this week.

About 8am on Tuesday (11 March 2025), police and emergency services responded to reports of a collision between a bus and motorcycle at the intersection of the Barton Highway and Gold Creek Road in Nicholls.

The 22-year-old female motorcyclist was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Sadly, she was declared deceased this morning (Friday, 14 March 2025).

ACT Road Policing’s Major Collision Team is investigating the circumstances of the collision and a report will be prepared for the Coroner.

Anyone who witnessed the incident who has not already spoken to police is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website. Please quote reference number 7993080.

ACT Policing is seeking to speak to at least two people who witnessed the collision of a police vehicle on Adelaide Avenue early on Sunday, 5 January (2025).

About 1.00am on the Sunday morning, the police vehicle collided with a concrete barrier on a left hand bend heading south on Adelaide Avenue.

Investigators from the Major Collision Team would like to speak to two people who witnessed the collision but at this time have not provided statements to police.

They are urged to contact to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website. Please quote reference number 7902113.

Anyone else who witnessed the collision or who may have dash-cam footage of the incident is also asked to come forward.

ACT Policing is seeking dashcam and mobile phone footage following an incident in Dickson yesterday.

About 5:50pm yesterday (20 March 2025), police received multiple reports of a maroon Honda CRV with a black roof storage box bearing ACT registration YPA 32E driving dangerously in Dickson.

Police allege the driver, a 41-year-old woman with a suspended licence, mounted the gutter and drove erratically on footpaths and greenbelts, including near the pool and Café Stepping Stone.

During the time of the incident members of the public were put at significant risk by her driving behaviour.

A short time later, officers located and arrested the woman in Braddon. She was charged with driving whilst suspended and reckless driving. The woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court at a later date.

Anyone with dashcam or mobile phone footage of the maroon SUV in Dickson yesterday evening is urged to contact police.

People with information or who witnessed yesterday’s incident is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website.  Please quote 8000969. Information can be provided anonymously.

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses and dash-cam footage of four vehicles being driven dangerously between 7 and 9 March.

Between Friday, 7 and Saturday, 8 March 2025, a red Volkswagen Golf with ACT registration YKT54U and a white Volkswagen Tiguan with ACT registration YKT64M were stolen from a residence in Turner.

About 9.30am on Saturday, 8 March, the Golf was involved in a collision on Greenway Street, Turner, and the Tiguan was seen driving erratically along Pialligo Avenue that day.

Later that evening, a gold Toyota RAV4 bearing ACT registration YKJ55A towed the Tiguan to the end of George Street in Oaks Estate where it was set on fire.

The gold RAV4 was then observed driving dangerously in Weston and Wright where the driver failed to stop for police several times.

After the gold RAV4 crashed on Anembo Street, Narrabundah, a red Toyota RAV4 with ACT registration YOL50Q was stolen from a nearby residence.

About 9.30am on Sunday, 9 March, a 24-year-old man was located in a parked vehicle on Rosenthal Street in Campbell where he was arrested in relation to incidents that had occurred in NSW in the week prior. The red RAV4 was found abandoned nearby.

All vehicles involved in these matters have now been recovered.

Today, ACT Policing is seeking any witnesses or dash-cam footage of the four vehicles being driven across Canberra.

Anyone with information in relation to this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website. Please quote 7991391. Information can be provided anonymously.

A 34-year-old woman will face court today in relation to sexual assault and incite suicide offences.

Police will allege that between 2015 and 2022 the woman was in a relationship with another woman.

In 2018, the 34-year-old woman allegedly told her partner she should kill herself, with the partner being admitted to hospital that day after attempting suicide.

Later in 2018 the 34-year-old allegedly sexually assaulted her partner and commenced threatening her via a messaging app.

In 2021 it will be alleged the 34-year-old and her partner got into an argument which escalated to a physical altercation with the 34-year-old allegedly strangling her partner.

In March 2024 the partner provided statements to police and an investigation was commenced, with the 34-year-old arrested at a residence in Belconnen yesterday (Thursday, 20 March 2025).

She was subsequently charged with incite suicide, sexual intercourse without consent and chokes/suffocates/strangles another person.

She is scheduled to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court today (Friday, 21 March 2025).

If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual violence, you can report to police by attending a police station, calling 131 444, or by speaking to the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre on 02 6247 2525.

There is no statute of limitations for sexual offences in the ACT. It doesn’t matter how much time may have passed and it is never too late to report.

You can also submit an online report for historical sexual assault for incidents that occurred more than six months ago.

A 21-year-old Dickson man will face the ACT Magistrates Court today for allegedly organising the manufacture of MDMA and other controlled drugs via clandestine laboratories.

In early 2024, ACT Policing’s Drugs and organised crime team commenced an investigation into a drug trafficking group, which identified the 21-year-old man as a person of interest.

Police will allege the 21-year-old man’s primary involvement was organising and directing other members of the group utilising encrypted applications. He allegedly arranged for the manufacture of controlled drugs interstate and the sale of controlled drugs and collection of controlled precursors in the ACT.

The man also allegedly provided funding to other members of the criminal group to carry out various taskings on behalf of the group including manufacturing of approximately 20 kilograms of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine at two separate clandestine laboratories in NSW.

About 11am on Monday (17 March 2025) the man was arrested at his Dickson residence and was charged with participating in a criminal group, recruiting people to engage in criminal activity, conspiracy to traffic in a controlled drug other than cannabis and commission by proxy – possess large commercial quantity-controlled precursor.

Investigations are ongoing and further arrests are anticipated.

If you have any information about the manufacture, distribution, or sale of illicit substances in the community, please report that information to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Information can be provided anonymously.

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses or dash-cam footage of a grey 2013 BMW sedan driving in the City following a fatal collision last week.

About 9.20pm (Tuesday, 11 March 2025), police and emergency services responded to a collision between a car and cyclist in the northbound lanes of Northbourne Avenue near Murdoch Street.

Sadly, the cyclist, a 70-year-old man, was declared deceased at the scene.

Police are seeking any witnesses or dash-cam footage of the vehicle being driven from Gungahlin to the City between 7pm and 7.30pm, or from the City to Lyneham between 9pm and 9.20pm on Tuesday, 11 March.

Anyone who can assist is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website. Please quote reference number 7993630. Information can be provided anonymously.

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses and assistance to identify a woman in relation to an aggravated robbery in Swinger Hill last month.

About 8:50pm on Sunday, 16 February 2025, police allege the woman entered the Friendly Grocer and threatened staff with a light brown handgun.  During the incident she demanded money and cigarettes from the teenage supermarket workers.

While no one was physically injured during this incident, it was terrifying for the staff involved.

A short time later the woman fled with a sum of cash and is believed to have departed the location in a white Toyota Corolla hatchback.

The woman police are seeking to identify is described as Caucasian in appearance with blonde hair and blue eyes. At the time of the incident, she was wearing a tan face mask, a black hoodie covering her head, blue denim shorts and white sneakers.

Police would like to speak to anyone who knows who the woman in the footage released today is.

Investigators would also like to speak with anyone who witnessed the event or who was in the vicinity of the Friendly Grocer during the robbery on 16 February.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website.  Please quote 7978352. Information can be provided anonymously.

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to identify a man in relation to an assault in the City last month.

About 3:00am on Sunday 23 February (2025), a man was assaulted on the corner of East Row and London Circuit, outside of East Row Cafe by a group of males.

During the assault the man suffered a broken jaw.

Police have spoken to some witnesses, however are seeking further bystanders to come forward to assist in the investigation.

Anyone who witnessed the incident, or has any information in relation to the assault, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website.  Please quote 7982390. Information can be provided anonymously.