{"id":735915,"date":"2026-06-14T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735915\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:52:09","slug":"driver-dies-after-crashing-into-pole-at-calder-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735915\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after crashing into pole at Calder Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A driver has died at Calder Park, in Melbourne&#8217;s north-west, after crashing into a pole this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police responded to the single-vehicle crash after reports a vehicle had crashed on the racetrack about 10:05am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The driver, who died at the scene, is yet to be formally identified, Victoria Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is believed the driver was competing in the Marque Sports Car Association of Victoria&#8217;s Super Sprint Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver has died at Calder Park, in Melbourne&#8217;s north-west, after crashing into a pole this morning. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,254296,1154,355722,85],"class_list":["post-735915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-calder-park","tag-crash","tag-driver-dies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735915","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=735915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}