{"id":444579,"date":"2026-01-29T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:42:10","slug":"man-restrained-by-passersby-after-car-crashes-into-multiple-others-on-busy-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444579\/","title":{"rendered":"Man restrained by passersby after car crashes into multiple others on busy road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Samaritans have restrained a driver who allegedly tried to run from a smashed-up car after it crashed into several others on a busy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> road.<\/p>\n<p>A silver Toyota Camry was seen driving erratically in Pascoe Vale before it collided with multiple cars on Sydney Road in Coburg around 12.30pm, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness told 3AW the car was allegedly travelling\ufeff on the wrong side of the road towards Bell Street before it side-swept &#8220;five or six cars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7d83f31c-002e-4b30-b279-3b0fdf7cc60a.jpeg\"   alt=\"The front of the silver Camry was mangled following the collisions.\"\/>The front of the silver Camry was mangled following the collisions. (Nine)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ce7a0a1d-260a-4c49-8684-8e5ddfedd1de.jpeg\"   alt=\"Police said the alleged offender tried to flee the scene on foot after dumping his damaged car on Sydney Road.\"\/>Police said the alleged offender tried to flee the scene on foot after dumping his damaged car on Sydney Road. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole car is covered in dents and the windscreen&#8217;s shattered,&#8221; 3AW caller Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a young guy with a beard and a grey t-shirt in the car by himself and he was driving like an absolute maniac, hitting cars, side-swept the tram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just went straight through the intersection and he just about took me out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half of Sydney Road&#8217;s come to a grinding halt up towards the Bell Street area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The car came to a stop \ufeffnext to Coburg Market, where police said the driver, a 27-year-old Broadmeadows man, attempted to flee the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ad05400a-4b1e-4480-b4be-11244e7a6b20.jpeg\"   alt=\"The alleged offender was loaded into a divvy van at the scene.\"\/>The alleged offender was loaded into a divvy van at the scene. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>He was restrained by passersby until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The man was given medical treatment at the scene before he was seen being loaded into a divvy van.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Samaritans have restrained a driver who allegedly tried to run from a smashed-up car after it crashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-444579","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\/444579","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=444579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}