{"id":91507,"date":"2025-08-24T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91507\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:04:07","slug":"two-dead-after-head-on-collision-at-toolern-vale-north-west-of-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91507\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after head-on collision at Toolern Vale, north-west of Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision north-west of Melbourne this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say officers who had intercepted a vehicle at Toolern Vale saw another vehicle speeding along Diggers Rest-Coimadai Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">That vehicle then collided head-on with another car travelling in the opposite direction, killing both drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Neither have been formally identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A passenger travelling in the first vehicle was taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The investigation will be overseen by the Victoria Police Professional Standards Command because the collision occurred after police contact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone who witnessed the incident or who has CCTV or dashcam footage is urged to contact crime stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision north-west of Melbourne this morning. Police say officers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1154,10470,67862,67860,44,1158,67861,67863],"class_list":{"0":"post-91507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-fatal-crash","12":"tag-head-on-collision","13":"tag-melbourne-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-toolern-vale","17":"tag-two-drivers-killed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507","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=91507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}