{"id":277188,"date":"2025-11-11T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277188\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:56:11","slug":"three-dead-including-children-after-in-south-west-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277188\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead including children after in south-west Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year-old child and his parents have died in a catastrophic collision with a truck at a rural intersection in Victoria\u2019s south-west.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the family\u2019s vehicle drove directly into the path of a B-double truck after failing to give way at a stop sign about 9.30am Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A young boy and two adults have been killed in a crash with a truck in Stoneleigh. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1b164aec3c527d055aa526b2f6ac135c4a83b715.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A young boy and two adults have been killed in a crash with a truck in Stoneleigh. Credit: Nine News<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the scene, major collision investigation unit Detective Inspector Craig McEvoy said the car was T-boned by the truck, causing it to roll before eventually coming to rest on its side.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed a boy, 3, his 31-year-old mother and 41-year-old father, who had been driving, were killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible scene \u2026 there are catastrophic injuries, and significant damage to the car which made extrication very difficult\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we can establish is that there were three generations of family in a vehicle that was travelling in a westerly direction towards the intersection where a B-double truck was travelling in a southerly direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>All passengers are understood to be from Geelong, with the truck driver local to the area.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth woman, the boy\u2019s grandmother, who was seated in the back seat of the vehicle was flown to The Alfred hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-year-old child and his parents have died in a catastrophic collision with a truck at a rural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-277188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277188","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=277188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}