ACMA finds Sunrise motorbike collision story breached accuracy rules

Sunrise breached broadcast accuracy rules in a story about a motorbike collision that aired in September of 2020, according to a ruling by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Following an investigation, the ACMA found that the report, which claimed a motorbike rider ‘deliberately rode off a footpath and into a 13-year-old girl’, was inaccurate.

In the story, it was presented as fact that the collision was intentional, with the ACMA ruling there was insufficient evidence to support the claim.