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Proof: Teenager ‘driving erratically’ before horror crash was known to police, authorities say

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T05:00:10Z","headline":"Teenager ‘driving erratically’ before horror crash was known to police, authorities say","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/newcastle-crash-live-updates-multiple-injuries-after-car-hits-crowd-20261003-p612js.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

34d350757e5a5632f308ab85904a1fc14391885932305156e194c144c98dc6aa

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969681, mined 2026-10-03 05:38 UTC.

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• The record pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture this page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-34d350757e5a.json prints 34d350757e5a5632f308ab85904a1fc14391885932305156e194c144c98dc6aa. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-34d350757e5a.json and headline-34d350757e5a.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-34d350757e5a.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 min after it was first seen.