Watch: Crash caught on camera amid city speed limit push
The heart stopping-moment a driver lost control of their car on a residential CBD street has been caught on camera, prompting renewed calls to reduce speed limits in the city. See the video.
A shocking car crash along a quiet city street highlights the need to lower speed limits and stop dangerous hoons, according to an Adelaide City councillor.
Footage shared with InDaily shows a Nissan sedan losing control along a straight stretch of Gilbert Street and crashing into a tree, road sign and into homes on Sunday evening.
Photographs taken at the crash site show the car rolled on to its side.
Adelaide City Councillor and Deputy Mayor Keiran Snape said the incident highlights the need to reduce the speed limited of the “densely populated” area.
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“In light of yesterday’s crash on Gilbert Street, I’m re-issuing my call for a 40km per hour blanket maximum speed limit within the City of Adelaide,” he told InDaily.
“People sometimes forget that we are the most densely populated part of the state, this will only increase as the city aims to host 50,000 people by the bicentenary in 2036.”
As previously reported, the council has been conducting a review into slashing speed limits on the key gateway roads into the CBD in a bid to be consistent with city ring councils, such as Unley.
It would mean the default 50km per hour speed limit would apply to all ten roads into the city despite some currently being marked as 60km per hour zones.
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But so far the plans were still being discussed.
Snapeplanned to move a motion next month to explore enforcing a city-wide speed limit of 40km per hour.
“It’s … worth noting that most of the surrounding council areas have speed limits of 40km per hour as you head towards the city.
“Having this increase to 50 and even 60 as you head into a more populated area makes absolutely no sense.”
The council had been investigating safer urban speed limits since 2022, and received crash data from Stantec in November 2024 that found 2400 crashes occurred in the City of Adelaide in five years.
Four of those crashes were fatal, 211 resulted in serious injury, and 658 resulted in minor injury: a rate of one person being injured nearly every second day on City of Adelaide roads.
“We are fortunate that this time around there was only minor injuries to the driver and passenger, and no injured pedestrians,” Snape said.
“Next time we might not be as lucky.”
SA police confirmed a male driver and a female passenger escaped without serious injury from the crash.
The driver, a 21-year-old man from Davoren Park was fined $333 for failing to maintain control of his vehicle.
The car had to be towed from the scene.
