{"id":541106,"date":"2026-03-15T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:28:09","slug":"boy-charged-over-fatal-crash-that-followed-alleged-attempted-carjacking-at-hoppers-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541106\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy charged over fatal crash that followed alleged attempted carjacking at Hoppers Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A teenage boy has been charged over a crash that left a 15-year-old boy dead in Melbourne&#8217;s south-west on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said a stolen grey Skoda was allegedly pursuing a Toyota sedan in what police said appeared to be an attempted carjacking on Derrimut Road at Hoppers Crossing around midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Skoda<a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-03-13\/vic-boy-dies-in-hoppers-crossing-cash\/106449904\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106449904\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> crashed and rolled several times after colliding with other vehicles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 15-year-old boy who was thrown from the vehicle died at the scene and a 17-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl suffered non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 17-year-old boy was arrested yesterday by Critical Incident Response Team detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has been charged with culpable driving causing death and other driving offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The teenager has been remanded and will face a children&#8217;s court.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A crashed car.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773541689_874_d0200b532389cbf27014f1fe15e68906.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\">A teenage boy died in the crash early on Friday morning. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said seven people were believed to have been in the Skoda when it crashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is the alleged the driver of the vehicle deliberately collided with the rear of a Toyota before the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said four people fled the scene and investigators are trying to establish their identities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 16-year-old female passenger remains in hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Another 16-year-old girl was arrested at the scene and released pending further enquiries, while a 14-year-old boy was arrested after he presented to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police found an edged weapon at the scene of the crash and said a quantity of alcohol was found inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has been charged over a crash that left a 15-year-old boy dead in Melbourne&#8217;s south-west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,10966,1154,11224,44,1158,22810],"class_list":["post-541106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charge","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-news","tag-police","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541106","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=541106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}