{"id":494293,"date":"2026-02-21T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:45:09","slug":"teenager-dies-in-hospital-a-week-after-being-hit-by-car-in-melbournes-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494293\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies in hospital a week after being hit by car in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A teenager has died in hospital a week after he was hit by a car in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have been told the vehicle was travelling along Pound Road in Narre Warren South when it left the road and hit the 16-year-old boy before crashing into a tree about 4.30pm on February 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Narre Warren South boy was flown to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police released a statement today saying that the boy died on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver, a 48-year-old local woman, was taken to hospital after the crash with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police officers stand near a police car while others stand in the middle of a road lined with trees.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771663509_568_9cc80c9a58c1fb2d1d3bc20271f29182.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\">Investigations into the crash and the boy&#8217;s death are continuing. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Investigators are still establishing the exact circumstances surrounding the collision,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have appealed for any witnesses to the incident or anyone who has dashcam or CCTV footage to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has died in hospital a week after he was hit by a car in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1154,5315,44,2948,12628,2024],"class_list":["post-494293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crash","tag-investigation","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-teenager","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494293","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=494293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}