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Proof: Teenager was ‘driving erratically’ before horror Newcastle crash, authorities say

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T04:41:06Z","headline":"Teenager was ‘driving erratically’ before horror Newcastle crash, 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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f5cea0544d729161e9f52895cf9417f32f16bd5e2b64ed914203787151f6c20d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969677, mined 2026-10-03 04:50 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 04:42 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f5cea0544d72.json prints f5cea0544d729161e9f52895cf9417f32f16bd5e2b64ed914203787151f6c20d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f5cea0544d72.json and headline-f5cea0544d72.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-f5cea0544d72.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, 1 min after it was first seen.