{"id":72262,"date":"2026-08-14T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/72262\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:50:10","slug":"driver-hospitalised-after-crashing-allegedly-stolen-car-in-melbournes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/72262\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hospitalised after crashing allegedly stolen car in Melbourne&#8217;s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A driver who crashed an allegedly stolen car on a Melbourne freeway had to be cut from the wreckage before being taken to hospital under police guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said the vehicle crashed on Eastlink early this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The male driver suffered serious injuries and two passengers were also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the white Porsche was stolen from an address in Bentleigh about 9:20pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A group of males, including one allegedly armed with a machete, confronted the owner of the vehicle as they arrived home and demanded the keys to the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The owner suffered a minor injury as the alleged offenders drove off in the car.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A crashed van.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f394a63a2f369007f770880c6ab32227.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\">The driver of a van hit by the allegedly stolen car suffered non-life-threatening injuries. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Porsche was spotted by police being driven in a dangerous manner and at speed across Melbourne&#8217;s western and southern suburbs after the alleged carjacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police pursued the vehicle after spotting it travelling inbound on Eastlink in Melbourne&#8217;s east about 2:10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said the car was driven with its headlights off and performed a u-turn and started driving the wrong way into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police called off their pursuit and the Porsche collided with a van shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The driver of the van suffered non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said their investigation into the incident was ongoing and anyone with information or dash cam footage has been urged to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver who crashed an allegedly stolen car on a Melbourne freeway had to be cut from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3340,22765,36259,1991,101326,260,1047,18149],"class_list":["post-72262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-arrest","tag-carjacking","tag-chase","tag-crash","tag-eastlink","tag-melbourne","tag-police","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72262","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=72262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}