{"id":349189,"date":"2025-12-15T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349189\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:44:06","slug":"four-dead-five-hospitalised-after-minivan-crashes-near-victoria-new-south-wales-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349189\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead, five hospitalised after minivan crashes near Victoria\u2013New South Wales border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Four people have died and a further five have been hospitalised after a minivan crashed into a tree near Victoria&#8217;s border with New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The wounded include three children, who have been flown to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said they believed the driver lost control of the vehicle \u2014 which was carrying nine occupants \u2014 on Chapel Road in Muckatah, near Cobram, at about 5pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Four passengers, who are yet to be formally identified, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver and another passenger were taken to hospital by ambulance with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The ages of the deceased are not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Muckatah is a rural locality about 10 kilometres south of Cobram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The crash sparked a major emergency response, with at least three air ambulances and advanced life support paramedics in attendance, according to Ambulance Victoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are on their way to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say the exact circumstances surrounding the crash are yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have died and a further five have been hospitalised after a minivan crashed into a tree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1154,10470,43,44,1158,27484,41,39,42,40,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-349189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-regional-victoria","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349189","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=349189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}