{"id":4400,"date":"2025-07-18T23:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4400\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:42:03","slug":"hunt-for-driver-after-man-crashes-and-rolls-down-embankment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4400\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for driver after man crashes and rolls down embankment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a man was seriously injured in a crash in \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Victoria&#039;s \">Victoria&#8217;s<\/a> West Gippsland region overnight.<\/p>\n<p>A silver Holden Barina rolled down an embankment \ufeffon the Princes Freeway in Drouin near Francis Avenue, at 11.50pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and sole occupant of the car became trapped in the vehicle, which caught on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police and a member of the public stopped to assist the driver \ufeffand managed to pull him from the burning car.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old man was flown to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWitnesses reported seeing the Holden driving next to another vehicle in the Drouin CBD shortly before the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking for the driver of the second vehicle to come forward.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are trying to determine the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a man was seriously injured in a crash in \ufeffVictoria&#8217;s West Gippsland region overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-4400","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","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=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}