Shocking footage has shown the moments a man dramatically jumped on to the front of a moving van after a crash on the Bolte Bridge.<\/p>\n
The wild scenes are believed to have been sparked by a collision in peak-hour traffic.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman said they were called to an incident just before 5pm, after a collision on the bridge in South Wharf escalated into a physical altercation.<\/p>\n
Footage shows the Nissan driver yelling at the Ford van\u2019s driver while scrambling to hold on to the front of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers were told that a Ford van and a Nissan Navara collided on the Bolte Bridge just before 5pm,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is believed both male occupants exited their vehicles and were involved in a physical altercation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver of the Ford got back into his vehicle and whilst driving away, the driver of the Nissan began holding on to the van.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators were told that driver of the Nissan came off the Ford prior to the Burnley Tunnel and the Ford continued driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Nissan driver was taken to hospital after sustaining non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the fall. <\/p>\n
VicTraffic confirmed that two right lanes on the West Gate Freeway just prior to the Burnley Tunnel entrance, were closed on Friday evening due to the abandoned vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shocking footage has shown the moments a man dramatically jumped on to the front of a moving van…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-702149","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\/702149","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=702149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}