Lidia Thorpe car accident: Controversial ex-Greens senator is injured in Melbourne smash

By Eliza Mcphee For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 02:14 BST, 2 August 2023 | Updated: 02:27 BST, 2 August 2023

Lidia Thorpe has been injured in a car accident and is expected to be absent from parliament for at least a week.

The Senator is understood to have been sitting in her car when she was suddenly rear-ended by another vehicle in Melbourne at the end of last week.

Ms Thorpe has suffered whiplash and bruising from the incident. 

Lidia Thorpe has been injured in a car accident and is expected to be absent from parliament for at least a week

Lidia Thorpe has been injured in a car accident and is expected to be absent from parliament for at least a week

She has been given advice from her doctor not to travel to Canberra for at least this week.

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