# Ten hurt as car hits Knights fans in Wallsend

> A five-year-old girl remains hospitalised after a car ploughed into Newcastle supporters gathering to farewell their team ahead of the NRL grand final.
- Title: Ten hurt as car hits Knights fans in Wallsend · Abc | Shortify
- Summary: A five-year-old girl remains hospitalised after a car ploughed into Newcastle supporters gathering to farewell their team ahead of the NRL grand final. A car…
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- Source: Abc — https://abc.net.au/news/2026-10-04/mixed-emotions-on-nrl-grand-final-day-after-newcastle-crash/107225230
- Published: 2026-10-03T19:10:18+00:00
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: newcastle knights, wallsend crash, nrl grand final, indika bambrick samarasinghe, newcastle, dangerous driving, news, politics
## Car hits crowd at roundabout
A car crashed into Newcastle Knights supporters about nine thirty am on Saturday at a roundabout on Newcastle Link Road in Wallsend, injuring ten people gathered to farewell the team.
## Five-year-old in serious condition
A five-year-old girl remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition after the crash. A sixty-seven-year-old man initially in critical condition is also now in serious but stable condition.
## Four more patients hospitalised
Four other people remain hospitalised in stable conditions: a second five-year-old girl, a two-year-old girl, a thirty-one-year-old woman and a forty-eight-year-old man. Three men and a sixty-three-year-old woman have been discharged.
## Driver charged with multiple offences
The eighteen-year-old driver, Indika Bambrick Samarasinghe, has been charged with dangerous driving, negligent driving occasioning bodily harm and causing bodily harm by misconduct. Two other teens in the vehicle were unharmed.
## Driver refused bail, licence suspended
Samarasinghe appeared in Newcastle Bail Court on Sunday, did not apply for bail and it was formally refused. His P one Provisional licence has been suspended and the vehicle seized for forensic examination.
## Community expresses devastation
Newcastle man Anderson Dell said the crash was devastating. It just goes to show one person's silly act can completely ruin something so great, he said, expressing hope for the injured's quick recovery.

> It just goes to show one person's silly act can completely ruin something so great.
## Injured supporter to miss grand final
Chris Clancy, one of those injured, posted on social media that he would spend the grand final in hospital with a broken left collarbone requiring surgery and a possible sprained or broken right foot.

> I have a broken left collarbone which requires surgery and may have a possible sprained or broken right foot.
## Fundraisers raise over forty thousand
A GoFundMe for those affected by the crash has raised more than twenty-six thousand dollars, while a second fundraiser to aid the recovery of an injured grandfather has reached fourteen thousand two hundred dollars.
## Key takeaway

A car crashed into Newcastle Knights supporters on Saturday morning, injuring ten people including a five-year-old girl now in serious but stable condition. The eighteen-year-old driver has been charged with dangerous driving and other offences.