{"id":903514,"date":"2026-09-24T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903514\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:34:10","slug":"man-dead-two-seriously-injured-in-bus-crash-near-glenburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903514\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead, two seriously injured in bus crash near Glenburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has died and multiple people were injured when a bus and two cars collided north-east of Melbourne this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Two bus passengers are also in a serious condition and several others have been hospitalised following the crash on the Melba Highway near Glenburn, in the Shire of Murrindindi, at around 2:40pm.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said it understood the bus collided with two cars, including a white car whose driver died at the scene.<\/p>\n

The driver and passenger of the second car, a blue Toyota, sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n

An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said paramedics assessed 21 patients at the scene.<\/p>\n

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The crash happened on the Melba Highway at Glenburn in the Yarra Ranges. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

A teenage boy was flown to The Alfred in a serious condition with upper body injuries, while a man in his 50s in a serious condition was taken by ambulance to Box Hill Hospital.<\/p>\n

A teenage girl and another teenage boy were also taken to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

Authorities say 16 other patients did not require emergency treatment or transport.<\/p>\n

Police believe 18 people, including the driver, were travelling in the bus at the time of the collision, which took place near Two Hills Road.<\/p>\n

Specialist crews including an Air Ambulance Victoria helicopter and Advanced Life Support units assisted with the response.<\/p>\n

Emergency services personnel remained at the scene at until about 4:30pm on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Charter company Mee’s confirmed the bus involved left Mansfield at about 1pm bound for Melbourne as part of a public transport service.<\/p>\n

The ABC understands the bus driver was an experienced, long-term driver for the company, and was not seriously injured in the crash.<\/p>\n

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Police have closed the Melba Highway after the crash. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Vision from the scene suggests the bus crashed through a road barrier on the side of the road it had been travelling along.<\/p>\n

At least two other vehicles appear to have been badly damaged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Premier Ben Carroll expressed his condolences on social media following news of the death<\/p>\n

“This is a terrible incident \u2014 multiple people are injured and at least one person has died,” he said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts are with everyone involved, their families and loved ones.”<\/p>\n

The section of the Melba Highway where the crash took place was ranked as the sixth most dangerous in the state in an RACV survey this year.<\/p>\n

The highway has been closed to traffic between Castella and Yea following the collision.<\/p>\n

Motorists are advised to detour through Kinglake and Flowerdale via Healesville-Kinglake, Whittlesea-Kinglake, and Whittlesea-Yea Roads.<\/p>\n

Detectives from the Major Collision Investigation Unit are attending the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died and multiple people were injured when a bus and two cars collided north-east of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,64,63,246,1154,23817,44,9493,471741],"class_list":["post-903514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-accident","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bus","tag-crash","tag-driving","tag-news","tag-road","tag-yarra-ranges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903514","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=903514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}