{"id":897420,"date":"2026-09-19T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897420\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T06:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:18:12","slug":"melbourne-news-police-officer-thrown-metres-after-being-hit-by-stolen-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897420\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne news: Police officer thrown metres after being hit by stolen Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been thrown several metres down a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> street after she was hit by an allegedly stolen car.<\/p>\n<p>Three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teenagers were arrested<\/a>, and two others are still on the run.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Police badge crime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/12650fd76c76dc5e3e3679d47f3d6894a04d07a6.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A police officer has been thrown several metres down a Melbourne street after she was hit by an allegedly stolen car.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>A female officer was hit when a Mercedes SUV drove onto the footpath in Ashwood as police moved in around 2.15am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the impact, she escaped serious injury and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/hospitals-5yd\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken to hospital<\/a> with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes allegedly sped away before crashing into a fence near the corner of Jordan Street and Salisbury Road.<\/p>\n<p>Three teenagers, aged 15, 16 and 17, were later found nearby and arrested with help from the police helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>All three are from the Casey area and are expected to be interviewed today.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the Mercedes had been stolen during a home invasion in Cranbourne East about 30 minutes before the officer was hit.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still looking for two other people believed to have been at the scene before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer has been thrown several metres down a Melbourne street after she was hit by an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-897420","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\/897420","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=897420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}