{"id":838766,"date":"2026-08-02T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:16:12","slug":"man-suffers-critical-injuries-trying-to-stop-his-car-from-being-stolen-in-melbournes-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838766\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suffers critical injuries trying to stop his car from being stolen in Melbourne&#8217;s north-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been critically inured trying to stop his car from being stolen in Melbourne&#8217;s north-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said emergency services were called to Blackwood Parade at Heidelberg West about 7:30pm Saturday, after reports a man had been struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Investigators were told the 68-year-old man was trying to stop his car from being stolen by an unknown offender when he was hit by the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police crime scene.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b0e3f8d37851223f9e6a88a0e8896319.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\">A 68-year-old man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the incident on Saturday night. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The offender fled the scene in the man&#8217;s vehicle and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives attended the scene and police said the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have asked anyone with information or dash-camera footage to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been critically inured trying to stop his car from being stolen in Melbourne&#8217;s north-east. Victoria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,58039,411048,86526,48240,3899,411047,44,1158,140649,2024],"class_list":["post-838766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-theft","tag-dash-camera-footage","tag-heidelberg-west","tag-hit-and-run","tag-injury","tag-major-collision-investigation-unit","tag-news","tag-police","tag-stolen-car","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838766","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=838766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}