{"id":66976,"date":"2026-08-07T06:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/66976\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:16:24","slug":"police-allege-two-boys-12-chased-by-ute-in-mildura-shopping-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/66976\/","title":{"rendered":"Police allege two boys, 12, chased by ute in Mildura shopping mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A child has been flown to Melbourne with serious injuries after a man allegedly drove after two kids riding motorised bikes in a north-east Victorian shopping mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police has arrested and charged a 57-year-old New South Wales man after the incident which occurred just after 11pm on Thursday in Mildura.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Authorities said the driver of the ute followed the two 12-year-old boys through Langtree Mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ute hit both children. Both boys sustained upper body injuries and were taken to hospital, with one being flown to Melbourne in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police officer near a white ute and a mangled push bike\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b8a896504ee7cb72ae6ab2a39643e50b.jpeg\" 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\">Crime scene investigators gather evidence after a collision in Langtree Mall. (ABC News: Wade Stephens)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 57-year-old man has been charged with four counts of reckless conduct endangering life, and one count each of intentionally causing injury, drive in a dangerous manner, and dangerous driving causing serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>The crime scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A large crime scene, spanning half the length of the mall, was established shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A mangled motorised push-bike, with a brown children's cap\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dd875a12a376e6a46e6ac7c5d0320305.jpeg\" 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\">A mangled motorised pushbike with a child&#8217;s cap attached. (ABC News: Wade Stephens)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Part of a misting system at the Eighth Street end of the mall had been uprooted by the impact, and was splayed across a nearby street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A light fixture was also heavily damaged in the incident, as was a motorised pushbike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Rubber tyre marks were seen along the pavement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Type marks on pavement, next to two numbered police cones, used to mark evidence\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1fcfad12042f0efb527072c668c794fd.jpeg\" 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\">Fresh tyre marks were visible on the Langtree Mall pavement. (ABC News: Wade Stephens)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are urging anyone who witnessed the collision or had any information to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>More news from regional Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child has been flown to Melbourne with serious injuries after a man allegedly drove after two kids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,4693,29723,3695,10849,84406,84407,1373,2033],"class_list":["post-66976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-child","tag-collision","tag-crime-scene","tag-injured","tag-langtree-mall","tag-mildura-crime-investigation-unit","tag-victoria-police","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66976","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=66976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}