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<\/p>\nA woman has been treated for eye injuries after bricks were thrown from an overpass, smashing car windscreens and injuring a motorist on a Melbourne freeway.<\/p>\n
Three youths were seen throwing the bricks from an overpass on the Princes Highway in Springvale about 1am on Saturday, police said. <\/p>\n
At least five cars were damaged, two significantly, when bricks were hurled into their windscreens.<\/p>\n
Paramedics treated a woman after glass fragments struck her eyes.<\/p>\n
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A brick on the passenger seat of a vehicle targeted on a Melbourne highway. (Source: Victoria Police)<\/p>\n
Multiple cars also received punctured tyres due to the large amount of debris caused by the bricks. <\/p>\n
Detective Senior Constable Simon Jacobs says it’s extremely lucky that only one person suffered minor injuries. <\/p>\n
“Throwing bricks from an overpass is not harmless behaviour,” he continued. <\/p>\n
“This incident clearly demonstrates that such actions have serious and potentially fatal consequences.”<\/p>\n
It is not the first time an incident like this has occurred. <\/p>\n
In 2023, a couple driving on a busy freeway near Frankston was hit by a large rock while travelling at 100km\/h, shattering their windscreen.<\/p>\n
The couple pulled over, and found dozens of rocks left on the freeway.<\/p>\n
Police are yet to make an arrest for the Springvale crime, and detectives are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been treated for eye injuries after bricks were thrown from an overpass, smashing car windscreens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-217248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}