{"id":242791,"date":"2025-10-26T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242791\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:36:10","slug":"car-speeds-through-crossing-in-melbournes-south-east-inches-away-from-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242791\/","title":{"rendered":"Car speeds through crossing in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east, inches away from pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are seeking witnesses to a terrifying near miss at a pedestrian crossing south-east of Melbourne earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Investigators said a speeding red Mazda 121 failed to stop at a red light and tore through a pedestrian crossing at Mornington, narrowly missing several people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The incident happened about 10:30pm on October 3 at the intersection of Main Street and the Nepean Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Five pedestrians were walking across the road at the time and were almost hit by the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the car was recorded travelling 93 kilometres per hour in a 70 kph zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Mazda had the registration number 1WG 6OE.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A CCTV image of a car going through a pedestrian crossing near several people.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/966d3f3530aa6e9b8d1c58cf12b33f1a\" 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\">Police say the red Mazda 121 was travelling at 93 kph in a 70 zone. (Supplied: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police has released CCTV footage of the incident and has asked anyone who witnessed it or has information to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The vision shows the car ploughing through the pedestrian crossing at speed, after several of the pedestrians rush to get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police want to speak to the pedestrians shown in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Investigators believe some of them may have filmed the Mazda as it sped through the intersection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking witnesses to a terrifying near miss at a pedestrian crossing south-east of Melbourne earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,5865,36569,144773,144772,44,2948,1158],"class_list":["post-242791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car","tag-crossing","tag-mornington","tag-near-miss","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242791","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=242791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}