{"id":119260,"date":"2025-09-04T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119260\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:59:08","slug":"two-women-killed-on-melbournes-hume-freeway-had-stopped-to-help-an-injured-animal-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119260\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women killed on Melbourne&#8217;s Hume Freeway had stopped to help an injured animal, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say two women who were fatally struck by a vehicle on the Hume Freeway, in Melbourne&#8217;s north, last night had stopped to help an injured animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The women were hit on the freeway at Craigieburn just after 7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">One of the women, a 30-year-old from Beveridge, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The second woman, a 30-year-old from Thomastown, was flown to hospital but died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said the women had stopped on the freeway to help an injured kangaroo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver of the vehicle that struck the women remained at the scene and assisted police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A helicopter at a crash scene.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/705b49bce10faf0773d38408d15915a4\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">One of the women was flown to hospital but died a short time later. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The exact circumstances of the collision are being investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have asked anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has footage to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said 203 people had died on the state&#8217;s roads so far this year, which is 11 more than at the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say two women who were fatally struck by a vehicle on the Hume Freeway, in Melbourne&#8217;s north,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,64,63,32029,1154,11224,84297,44],"class_list":["post-119260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-accident","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-craigieburn","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-hume-freeway","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}