{"id":351328,"date":"2025-12-16T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:38:08","slug":"woman-dies-after-alleged-deliberate-hit-and-run-in-maroochydore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351328\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after alleged deliberate hit-and-run in Maroochydore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 24-year-old New South Wales woman has died after an alleged deliberate hit-and-run in Maroochydore on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mallee Smith was critically injured when Guilherme Dal Bo allegedly drove a Toyota Yaris into a group of eight pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the 38-year-old driver left the scene and was later arrested at a nearby residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Sunday, Detective Acting Inspector Peter Hocken said police were treating the incident as &#8220;an intentional, deliberate act&#8221; after a &#8220;minor&#8221; altercation between the driver and a group of males.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have alleged the man drove off before returning a short time later and mounting the footpath, where six males and two females were walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The [women] were unknown to the other males; they just happened to be walking on that sidewalk at that time,&#8221; Acting Inspector Hocken said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver was charged with eight counts of attempted murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is expected to appear in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on December 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old New South Wales woman has died after an alleged deliberate hit-and-run in Maroochydore on Saturday night.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38294,64,63,42840,48,1300,48240,4082,12979,193281,44,1158],"class_list":{"0":"post-351328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-attempted-murder","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-car-crash","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-death","14":"tag-hit-and-run","15":"tag-hospital","16":"tag-injuries","17":"tag-maroochydore","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351328","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=351328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}