An email sent to me this morning from Broome.
You might be interested!

"Just had the guy who towed the car away "john smith" come into the office, being the talk of the town right now convo came up and it happened early about 2am so still dark he had just finished a tour with friends. When "john smith" got out there Mal was still standing wedged between the car and the tree so what he has said is that Mal got out of his car and its then rolled back and the door has wedged him in between the car and a tree which was behind to the right, he couldn’t breathe from the pressure and he never has his mobile on him and was alone. "john smith" said ‘if he could of reached (in which he obviously couldn’t) turn the key ignition on so the car jump forward’ but if the car rolled it wouldn’t of helped anyway coz it had to of been out of gear to roll in the first place! He must have been on a slope. .. I wouldn’t quote me on it but its a version of what happen by someone who was there at the scene. Already hearing silly Brumours! "

Yahoo News
September 23, 2010, 10:53 am
The original crocodile hunter Malcolm Douglas has died after the car he was travelling in crashed into a tree on his property in Western Australia.

WA police said a man was killed after their four-wheel-drive vehicle crashed into a tree at about 6.30am (WST) in an area near the Douglas's Wilderness Wildlife Park in Broome.

They would not confirm the man's identity, saying next of kin were yet to be informed.

For more than 40 years, Douglas, also known as the "barefoot bushman", trekked across the Australian outback documenting his adventures through dozens of wildlife documentaries and television shows.

The 69-year-old's Crocodile Park opened in 1983 to enormous success, with tourists from all over the world flocking to the park to see and feed his crocodiles.

Later in life, Douglas was often overshadowed by the popularity of The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, who garnered global popularity with his exuberant demeanour and fearless behaviour.

However Douglas was alway seen as the man who set the mould for adventurers to come.

"What you see is what you get," he told Fairfax in 2009.

"I'm not fake and I don't pre-plan takes, it's all real. There's no helicopter on standby if something goes wrong. In places like the Kimberley one mistake and you're dead."

He was virtually an overnight success after his first wildlife show, Across The Top, was screened in 1976.

Malcolm Douglas...Legend & hero of us that have never seen, or may never see the Kimberlies, Arnhem land & the most remote parts of Aus! Not a nice way to go, but at least he didn't die couped up inside...