{"id":47109,"date":"2025-08-06T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47109\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:51:08","slug":"one-person-dead-after-van-crushed-under-truck-in-crash-at-ravenhall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47109\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after van crushed under truck in crash at Ravenhall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">One person has been killed after a van that crashed into a truck in Melbourne&#8217;s west on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services responded to reports of a collision on Fuller Road, Ravenhall, about 20 kilometres west of the CBD, just before 8am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Footage showed the front half of a delivery van crushed under a semi-trailer, which was parked at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police confirmed the driver of the van died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The exact circumstances surrounding the collision are yet to be established,&#8221; a statement from Victoria Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The van was stuck under the trailer for more than three hours on Wednesday morning as police worked to determine how many people were inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Crews from Fire Rescue Victoria, Ambulance Victoria, and the State Emergency Service also responded to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver&#8217;s identity is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been killed after a van that crashed into a truck in Melbourne&#8217;s west on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40366,64,63,1154,7770,44,40365,25976,7611,2024],"class_list":["post-47109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ambulance-victoria","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crash","tag-fire","tag-news","tag-ravenhall","tag-truck","tag-van","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47109","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=47109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}