{"id":660735,"date":"2026-05-09T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660735\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:27:09","slug":"woman-fighting-for-life-after-melbourne-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660735\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman fighting for life after Melbourne hit and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed a \ufeffwoman in her 40s was riding an e-scooter on Swan Street near the intersection of Scott Street in Melton in Melbourne&#8217;s west when she was hit by a small white sedan at about 12.20 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The car failed to stop and was last seen driving away from the scene heading east along Swan Street.<\/p>\n<p>Items of clothing and shards of broken glass were seen at the site of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police are urging anyone who witnessed the collision or anyone with footage or further information to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is believed a \ufeffwoman in her 40s was riding an e-scooter on Swan Street near the intersection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-660735","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\/660735","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=660735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}