A driver was killed when his car hit a tree in Adelaide’s north this morning, with police also kept busy overnight by two stabbings and an armed hold-up.
Key points:
- The 52-year-old driver from Kilburn died at the scene on Main North Road
- Earlier, a man suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after a stabbing at Port Noarlunga South
- Another man is in hospital after a stabbing at St Marys
The man was the only person in the Holden sedan when it hit a tree on Main North Road at Salisbury Heights just before 8:30am.
“The driver and sole occupant, a 52-year-old from Kilburn, sadly died at the scene,” police said.
Major Crash investigators attended the scene and the road has since reopened.
Earlier in the morning, police arrested two men after a stabbing at Port Noarlunga South.
Police were called to a house on Oxford Street about 4:00am after reports of a disturbance.
Senior Constable Kristina Phillipson told ABC Radio Adelaide police found a 27-year-old man with stab wounds to his abdomen.
“He was rushed to Flinders Medical Centre with serious injuries,” she said.
A 21-year-old man from Port Noarlunga South was arrested at the scene.
A 47-year-old man who lives at the address was taken to Noarlunga Hospital with lacerations to his hands.
He has been arrested and charged with aggravated commit assault that causes harm.
“Investigations on that stabbing are continuing and police believe the men are known to each other and that it wasn’t random,” Senior Constable Phillipson said.
Man injured in stabbing at St Marys
Police are also investigating a stabbing at St Marys, which happened at about 5.30pm last night.
Emergency services were called to Rothesay Avenue after reports that a man had been stabbed by people known to him.
When police arrived they found a 37-year-old man who had been stabbed in his abdomen.
He was taken to the Flinders Medical Centre with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police: ‘Committing crime is not one of the five reasons to leave home’
Police are searching for a man who robbed the Woodcroft Hotel bottle shop last night.
At 6.30pm last night, a man threatened staff at the bottle shop with a knife and stole cash from the till.
Police said he then ran across the road where another man was waiting on a red dirt bike.
They were last seen travelling west along Bains Road.
“Also, just a reminder, as the Commissioner said on Saturday, committing crime is not one of the five reasons to leave home,” Constable Phillipson said.
Police ask anyone with information on the stabbings or robbery to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
