{"id":614990,"date":"2026-04-18T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:06:09","slug":"one-person-dead-and-one-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-hits-pedestrians-outside-melbourne-showgrounds-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614990\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead and one with \u2018life-threatening injuries\u2019 after car hits pedestrians outside Melbourne showgrounds | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">One person is dead and another has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a car struck pedestrians outside a fan convention in inner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/melbourne\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A car mounted the kerb on Saturday afternoon shortly before 5pm outside the Melbourne showgrounds, where the Supanova Comic Con event was being held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Victoria police said major collision investigation unit detectives were investigating a fatal collision in Ascot Vale on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt is believed a grey Toyota mounted a kerb on Langs Road and struck two pedestrians just before 5pm,\u201d police said in a statement. \u201cSadly, one of the pedestrians who is yet to be formally identified, died at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe second pedestrian was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A man was arrested and will be interviewed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe circumstances surrounding the collision are yet to be established and the investigation remains ongoing,\u201d Victoria police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Thousands of comic and gaming fans flock to Supanova Comic Con every year, with the Melbourne event adding crowds of visitors to an already-busy area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Celebrities including Stranger Things cast member Jamie Campbell Bower and Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings trilogy, were set to headline the expo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u2013 with AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead and another has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a car struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-614990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614990","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=614990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}