Newcastle, NSW

Calls from family of young girl critically injured in Newcastle crash into Knights fans

7NEWS Hayley Taylor

4 Oct 2026 13:33 AEDT Summary

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From the report

A sombre mood has settled over Newcastle on NRL grand final day after a car ploughed into a crowd of Knights fans while they were waving off the team.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

7NEWS Multiple people, including children, injured as car crashes into NRL fans in Newcastle plain
WAtoday Multiple injured after being hit by car in Newcastle plain
WAtoday Ten people injured, P-plater charged after car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans plain
ABC News P-plater in custody as witness recounts moment BMW hit Knights supporters plain
The West Australian Newcastle Knights crash: NRL grand final horror as 18-year-old P-plater ploughs car into crowd plain
7NEWS Calls from family of young girl critically injured in ~~horror~~ Newcastle crash into Knights fans 1 change

Headline check

Headline as published: Calls from family of young girl critically injured in horror Newcastle crash into Knights fans

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

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How it is written

Niral Score 15.2 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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Sentiment -0.7 hostilefavourable Sourcing 76 unattributednamed sources Mood 34.1 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

How the article is written, not whether it is correct. How each is measured.

Measured on 7NEWS’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by WAtoday, The Age, The West Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
7NEWSas they published this story	15.2	16	76	-0.7	34.1
7NEWS	5.3	1	84	-0.3	33.9
ABC News	5.6	0	67	-0.1	38.2

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The same event elsewhere

8 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

7NEWS Multiple people, including children, injured as car crashes into NRL fans in Newcastle Niral 5.3 · calm political 0 WAtoday Multiple injured after being hit by car in Newcastle Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 WAtoday Ten people injured, P-plater charged after car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans Niral 4.2 · calm political 0 ABC News P-plater in custody as witness recounts moment BMW hit Knights supporters Niral 5.6 · calm political 0 The Age Ten people injured, P-plater charged after car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans Niral 4.2 · calm political 0 The Age Multiple injured after being hit by car in Newcastle Niral 4.1 · calm political 0 The West Australian Newcastle Knights crash: NRL grand final horror as 18-year-old P-plater ploughs car into crowd Niral 7.8 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Ten people injured, P-plater charged after car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans Niral 4.2 · calm political 0