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<\/p>\nWitnesses say an erratic and speeding driver came within metres of the Melbourne marathon course after allegedly hitting a pedestrian near Flinders St station in the Melbourne city centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency services, including paramedics and multiple police, responded to the incident, with authorities confirming one person was taken to hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Victoria Police are yet to give a public update on the incident or confirm if any arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
Multiple witnesses told the ABC they saw a white car driving fast and erratically down Flinders Street, Flinders Lane and Elizabeth Street from around 10.30am this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One local worker told the ABC the car drove through the busy city area multiple times and did not appear to avoid pedestrians crossing in front of Flinders St station.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said she saw the car hit a pedestrian and described the incident as “really scary.”<\/p>\n
“It was really terrible, people were screaming on the road,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He was not looking at people, he was driving straight at people.”<\/p>\n
The chaos unfolded as thousands of people were running in the Melbourne Marathon on a route that passed by Flinders Street Station at the Swanston Street end.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from Ambulance Victoria confirmed paramedics were called to the incident just before 11am and one person was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital.<\/p>\n
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Emergency services, including members of the police public order response unit, were seen responding to an incident near Flinders St station.\u00a0 (ABC News: Kate Ashton)<\/p>\n
Another witness said he saw people jumping out of the way to avoid the driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“[The driver] had no regard for anyone when he was driving, absolutely not, completely erratic, very reckless.”<\/p>\n
Victoria Police have been contacted for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witnesses say an erratic and speeding driver came within metres of the Melbourne marathon course after allegedly hitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,5865,9278,48,36506,17724,647,128245,44,2948,1158],"class_list":["post-923829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car","tag-city","tag-crime","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-services","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-marathon","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923829","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=923829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}