{"id":436254,"date":"2026-01-25T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:21:11","slug":"two-killed-in-horrific-crash-on-suburban-melbourne-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436254\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in horrific crash on suburban Melbourne street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A suburban <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/vic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Melbourne<\/a> main road has become the scene of a devastating tragedy after a car slammed into a pole late on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Emergency crews were called to Oaklands Ave on the Burwood Hwy in Ferntree Gully about 5.55pm, where they found the vehicle torn apart by the force of the impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two passengers \u2014 who are yet to be formally identified \u2014 died at the scene despite desperate efforts to save them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The male driver survived and was taken to hospital under police guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Detectives from the Major Collision Investigation Unit are now piecing together what led to the deadly crash, with the circumstances still unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police are urging anyone who saw the incident, or who has dashcam or CCTV footage, to contact police or report anonymously at crimestoppersvic.com.au..<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/teen-driver-blows-more-than-twice-the-limit-after-crashing-into-home-in-terang-c-21415097\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>P-plater allegedly caught drink-driving as he crashes into home<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/major-police-operation-underway-after-explosive-device-found-at-melbourne-home-c-21414110\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Major police operation as explosive devices found at Melbourne home<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suburban Melbourne main road has become the scene of a devastating tragedy after a car slammed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,7481,2024],"class_list":["post-436254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vic-news","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436254","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=436254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}