{"id":33287,"date":"2026-06-17T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/33287\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:21:20","slug":"girl-2-dies-in-four-vehicle-crash-in-west-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/33287\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 2, dies in four-vehicle crash in West Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A two-year-old girl has died after a four-vehicle crash on a major arterial route in inner-city Melbourne this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the incident on Dynon Road, in West Melbourne, just before 4:30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the little girl was in a vehicle being driven by a 30-year-old man, who was taken to hospital with critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Thursday morning, the man was in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Three passengers in the car \u2014 a 30-year-old woman, a four-year-old boy and an 11-month-old boy \u2014 are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police officers at a crash scene hold cameras and there's markers on the road.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/416988d6a7c4d7f40f25b2e47f9e6ebd?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1080&amp;cropW=1620&amp;xPos=150&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash on Dynon Road in West Melbourne. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man, 40, driving a second vehicle was also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while a 30-year-old woman driving a third car was treated for minor injuries at the scene by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 62-year-old man who was the sole occupant of a fourth vehicle was also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detectives are still investigating the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone who witnessed the crash, or has information including dashcam footage, should contact Crime Stoppers via 1800 333 000 or www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-year-old girl has died after a four-vehicle crash on a major arterial route in inner-city Melbourne this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10761,2331,29723,39,260,1373],"class_list":["post-33287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-accident","tag-cars","tag-collision","tag-hospital","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}