{"id":558971,"date":"2026-03-23T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558971\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:02:11","slug":"motorist-flees-scene-after-mowing-down-petrol-station-attendant-in-armadale-as-fuel-crisis-takes-shock-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558971\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist flees scene after mowing down petrol station attendant in Armadale as fuel crisis takes shock turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The fuel crisis has taken a dangerous turn with a driver mowing down a Perth service station attendant and leaving them with serious injuries during a petrol drive-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police were called to Vibe service station on Forrest Road in Armadale about 1pm on Monday after a man filled his dark-coloured sedan and began to drive off without paying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cAs the vehicle was attempting to leave, a male service station attendant attempted to stop the vehicle before being struck and injured,\u201d a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The victim, aged in his 30s, suffered serious facial injuries and was transported by paramedics to Royal Perth Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The driver remains on the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police are urging anyone who has seen a dark-coloured sedan with damage to the windscreen and bonnet to contact Crime Stoppers immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Find out what a witness at the scene had to say at <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/crime\/motorist-flees-scene-after-mowing-down-petrol-station-attendant-in-armadale-as-fuel-crisis-takes-shock-turn-c-22036047\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thewest.com.au.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fuel crisis has taken a dangerous turn with a driver mowing down a Perth service station attendant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-558971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-perth","12":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558971","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=558971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}