{"id":388882,"date":"2026-01-03T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:33:11","slug":"fight-breaks-out-after-crash-on-monash-freeway-in-melbournes-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388882\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight breaks out after crash on Monash Freeway in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Three people involved in a car crash in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east on Saturday began fighting before fleeing the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The crash occurred on the Monash Freeway near Ernst Wanke Road in Narre Warren just before 2.30pm on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said it was believed the occupants of the two cars left the vehicles following the crash and &#8220;began fighting with each other&#8221;, with some believed to have been armed with edged weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three police and a police dog search the area near where a crash occured on the Monash Freeway.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8e2c16b22a5bce672e920e3a861ab932.jpeg\" 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 could be seen searching the area nearby the scene of the crash. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Three occupants of one of the cars fled the area, police said. The driver, and only occupant of the other vehicle, remained at the scene and spoke to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said there had been no reports of injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people involved in a car crash in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east on Saturday began fighting before fleeing the scene,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,64,63,1154,1913,202772,208398,44,1158],"class_list":{"0":"post-388882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-fight","13":"tag-monash-freeway","14":"tag-narre-warren","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388882","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=388882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}