Sport / Newcastle, NSW

Multiple people, including children, injured as car crashes into NRL fans in Newcastle

7NEWS Freddy Pawle

3 Oct 2026 10:24 AEST Summary

From the report

A car has crashed into a crowd of people waving goodbye to Newcastle Knights players as they head to Sydney for the NRL Grand Final.

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 Multiple people injured after car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans plain
ABC News Multiple people injured as car hits crowd at Knights pre-grand final farewell in Newcastle plain
The West Australian Newcastle Knights grand final farewell crash: Chris Minns speaks out as children among fans injured plain

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How it is written

Niral Score 5.3 · calm mundaneloaded

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

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people5car4confirmed3injured3scene3children2emergency2helicopters2incident2including2multiple2services2show2team2

Sentiment -0.3 hostilefavourable Sourcing 84 unattributednamed sources Mood 33.9 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	5.3	1	84	-0.3	33.9
ABC News	5.6	0	67	-0.1	38.2

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