Ten hurt at the Knights grand final parade: 7NEWS on the P-plater's charges
A five-year-old girl and a 67-year-old grandfather are among the injured, and the standalone report ran far ahead of the channel's other weekend clips.
7NEWS AustraliaStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 147,483 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (13,760).
P-plater charged after Newcastle Knights parade crash | 7NEWS
7NEWS Australia covered the Newcastle crash twice. One upload folded it into a bulletin alongside the identification of the man accused in the FlyDubai cockpit attack. The other, "P-plater charged after Newcastle Knights parade crash | 7NEWS", gave the story its own clip. That report passed 63,000 views in its first seven hours, about ten times the pace of a usual new 7NEWS upload.
The report covers the Newcastle Knights grand final parade, where a car went into the crowd. An 18-year-old driver on provisional plates, what Australians call a P-plater, has been charged with multiple offences. Ten people were injured. According to the description, they include a five-year-old girl who was in critical condition at first and has since stabilised, and a 67-year-old grandfather who is still in hospital after several surgeries.
The combined bulletin has passed 120,000 views. The separate clip on the Dubai pilot attacker sits near 26,000. Perhaps the Newcastle story is the one viewers came looking for. The channel's other uploads from the same stretch stayed in the thousands: a rare tornado at Ulladulla on the NSW south coast, a security guard who escaped a firebomb attack in Adelaide, a stabbing at a Brisbane house party.
This single report stood out on a day when the channel as a whole drew fewer views than it usually does.
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- Channel
- 7NEWS Australia
- Subscribers
- 2,260,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 17,045,857
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,678,368 (on a normal day: 2,069,196)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 63,012 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 147,483
The numbers
The figures show one report pulling far ahead of everything else the channel posted that weekend.
