{"id":120211,"date":"2025-09-05T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120211\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:02:11","slug":"two-women-killed-after-stopping-to-help-injured-kangaroo-on-busy-melbourne-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120211\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women killed after stopping to help injured kangaroo on busy Melbourne highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women have been killed by a car after stopping to help an injured kangaroo on a busy highway in <a>Melbourne<\/a>&#8216;s north.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the\ufeff Hume Freeway in Craigieburn just after 7.30pm yesterday over reports of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffA 30-year-old woman from Beveridge died at the scene, and a 30-year-old woman from Thomastown later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing Glenn Weir said the women had stopped to help a kangaroo they had struck with their car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another vehicle travelling in the same direction hasn&#8217;t seen their car, we think, until the last minute, swerved to avoid the car, and it struck the two females at relatively high speed,&#8221; he told ABC Radio Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Weir said he understood why the women wanted to help, but warned motorists that it is dangerous to be on the road at night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s inherently dangerous to be on the roadway, particularly at night, particularly in drizzly conditions, and you&#8217;ve just got to really consider your surroundings,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s terrible for the person driving behind them as well, who struck them, other people on the freeway who saw what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/872794a9-651f-4db1-8075-089c63e6567b.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>Two women were killed on the Hume Freeway in a collision at Craigieburn, Melbourne. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe driver of the car that hit the women remained at the scene and spoke with police.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation and any witnesses are urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Police said 205 people have died on the state&#8217;s roads this year, up by 12 from this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four days alone, nine people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWeird said three, including the two women last night, of those were pedestrians, three were motorcyclists, and three were motorists. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The commonality is that there&#8217;s really no commonality. From our perspective, trying to task and patrol and address the trauma, it is really difficult,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women have been killed by a car after stopping to help an injured kangaroo on a busy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-120211","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\/120211","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=120211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}