{"id":838695,"date":"2026-08-01T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838695\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:23:10","slug":"melbourne-crime-thief-runs-man-over-with-his-own-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838695\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne crime: Thief runs man over with his own car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man trying to stop his car being stolen was run over and left with critical injuries in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/theft-26mi\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thief<\/a> still on the run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/police-6iyz\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> were called to Blackwood Parade in Heidelberg West at about 7.30pm overnight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b9c84c7b9aae667f6339eb84723e4bc55deb21004ce0d40234c9c59d6ac3b5d7.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A man is fighting for his life after he was hit by a car in Heidelberg West, Melbourne.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>They were told a man was trying to stop his car being stolen by an unknown thief.<\/p>\n<p>But the vehicle struck the man and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offender<\/a> drove away.<\/p>\n<p>A 68-year-old man was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/hospitals-5yd\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hospital<\/a> with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has yet been arrested by an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information or with CCTV or dashcam footage is urged to contact Crime Stoppers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\">online<\/a> or on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man trying to stop his car being stolen was run over and left with critical injuries in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-838695","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\/838695","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=838695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}