{"id":66070,"date":"2025-08-13T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66070\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:49:13","slug":"car-driven-by-elderly-man-crashes-into-asian-grocery-store-in-melbourne-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66070\/","title":{"rendered":"Car driven by elderly man crashes into Asian grocery store in Melbourne CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly driver has ploughed a car through an Asian grocery store in Melbourne\u2019s CBD, striking a pedestrian and pinning a shopper inside.<\/p>\n<p>The 87-year-old man, from Ivanhoe in the city\u2019s north-east, was behind the wheel of a teal Mercedes-Benz sedan when it mounted the footpath on Elizabeth Street about 2.30pm Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emergency personnel at the scene of the crash. The 87-year-old driver was uninjured.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2806da19c9ff8a51070759a63e3583309ccfb747.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel at the scene of the crash. The 87-year-old driver was uninjured.Credit: Nine News<\/p>\n<p>The car struck a pedestrian, a 19-year-old man from Parkville, before smashing through the glass facade of KT Mart and hitting another 56-year-old man inside.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle pinned the shopper, who was left with a bloodied leg, 7News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the building sustained major structural damage, while both people struck by the car were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver of the vehicle is expected to undergo a [licence] review,\u201d a Victoria Police spokeswoman said. \u201cThe investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was the only person in the car, was uninjured. An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said a mobile intensive care ambulance and advanced life support paramedics attended the crash, and both injured people were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A large police presence was reported in the CBD after the incident. The outer carriageway of Elizabeth Street was closed to traffic between Queensberry Street and Victoria Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly driver has ploughed a car through an Asian grocery store in Melbourne\u2019s CBD, striking a pedestrian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-66070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66070","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=66070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}