{"id":181501,"date":"2025-10-01T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181501\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:45:09","slug":"one-dead-after-driver-crashes-into-two-parked-trucks-with-sleeping-occupants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181501\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after driver crashes into two parked trucks with sleeping occupants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed the truck driver lost control\ufeff before crashing into two parked trucks on the Hume Freeway near Wangaratta South just before 5am.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who is yet to be identified, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The two occupants of the parked trucks were sleeping at the time and were not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still investigating the circumstances around the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident or has dashcam or CCTV footage is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is believed the truck driver lost control\ufeff before crashing into two parked trucks on the Hume Freeway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-181501","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\/181501","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=181501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}