{"id":675169,"date":"2026-05-16T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675169\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:03:17","slug":"boy-dead-two-seriously-injured-following-car-crash-in-north-west-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675169\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dead, two seriously injured following car crash in north-west Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 14-year-old boy has died and two other teenagers have been injured after the allegedly stolen vehicle they were in crashed into a tree in Victoria&#8217;s north-west near Charlton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Investigators say the car was travelling along the Calder Highway near Woosang-Yeungroon Road shortly before 10am when it left the road and crashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services arrived and declared one teenager in the car dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police cars and officers on a highway,\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f4012ab71d64f50d85e49d40eaf79d56.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\">Investigators believe the vehicle involved in the fatal incident was allegedly stolen in Mildura overnight. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two other males, aged 18 and 14, were trapped in the vehicle and needed to be cut free from the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The pair were both airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Investigators believe the vehicle was allegedly stolen from a Mildura address overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Motorists have been advised that the Calder Highway is expected to be closed for a significant amount of time as detectives investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone who witnessed the incident, has footage or information, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy has died and two other teenagers have been injured after the allegedly stolen vehicle they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28222,5865,1300,43,44,9493,78127,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-675169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-car","tag-death","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-road","tag-toll","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675169","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=675169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}