{"id":319759,"date":"2025-12-01T03:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319759\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:07:10","slug":"teen-charged-as-man-18-fights-for-life-after-falling-from-roof-of-moving-car-on-mornington-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319759\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged as man, 18, fights for life after falling from roof of moving car on Mornington Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old man has been rushed to hospital by helicopter with head injuries after falling from the roof of a moving car on Victoria&#8217;s Mornington Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Another \ufeff18-year old who was allegedly driving faces multiple charges over the accident at St Andrew&#8217;s Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Police say five 18-year-old boys were in the Holden Cruze about 6.50pm yesterday, and another two were on top.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men slid off the car in a \ufeffcar park on Paradise Road.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance Victoria said \ufeffthe man was flown to Royal Melbourne Hospital with upper body injuries in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged driver, from Glen Waverley, has been charged with drive in a manner dangerous causing serious injury, reckless conduct endanger life, reckless conduct endanger serious injury, drive in a manner dangerous and careless driving.<\/p>\n<p>He was bailed to appear before Dromana Magistrates&#8217; Court on January 22, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man has been rushed to hospital by helicopter with head injuries after falling from the roof&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-319759","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\/319759","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=319759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}