Elderly Woman Dies in Fatal Bruxner Highway Crash

by | Aug 9, 2025 | News | 0 comments

An 82-year-old woman has died following a collision with a semi-trailer on the Bruxner Highway.

Emergency services were called to the Pineapple Road/Oliver Avenue roundabout on the eastern approach to Goonellabah just after 6pm yesterday.

Richmond Police District officers arrived to find a Toyota sedan and a semi-trailer had collided.

Witnesses said the crash occurred as the woman entered the roundabout from Oliver Avenue. It was raining at the time.

NSW Ambulance paramedics and police treated the woman, but she died at the scene.

The driver of the semi-trailer, a 58-year-old man, was uninjured and taken to Lismore Hospital for mandatory testing.

Traffic was diverted for several hours while officers established a crime scene and began inquiries into the circumstances of the crash.

Police say accident investigation officers will prepare a report for the Coroner.


Rod Bruem

Rod Bruem

Rod Bruem began his career as a cadet journalist at the Lithgow Mercury in 1985 and went on to work in other regional daily newspapers, radio and TV, including time at Australia’s top newsroom at TCN9 Sydney. Bruem has advised Federal independent and LNP Ministers and MPs and spent nearly two decades as a corporate communications adviser to Telstra. Rod moved to the Ballina region in 2014, publishing a national travel magazine and later becoming breakfast host at 101.9 Paradise FM. From 2022 he served a term as councillor on Ballina Shire Council and the Rous County Council before leaving to co-found the Ballina News Daily.

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