{"id":119449,"date":"2025-09-04T23:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119449\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:46:06","slug":"two-women-killed-after-being-hit-by-car-while-trying-to-help-injured-kangaroo-on-busy-freeway-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119449\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women killed after being hit by car while trying to help injured kangaroo on busy freeway | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two women have died after being hit by a car while trying to help an injured kangaroo on a busy freeway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/melbourne\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne\u2019s<\/a> north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Victorian police said emergency services had been called to reports two females were struck by a car on the Hume Freeway just after 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It was believed the pair had stopped to assist an injured kangaroo before they were struck, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 30-year-old woman died at the scene and another 30-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital but died shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and assisted police. The exact circumstances of the collision were being investigated, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A spokesperson for wildlife rescue organisation Wires told local ABC radio it was \u201cfully understandable\u201d that people want to help injured animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cPeople get so distressed when they see an animal on the side of road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In such situations they should contact wildlife rescue groups, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women have died after being hit by a car while trying to help an injured kangaroo on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-119449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119449","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=119449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}