{"id":78112,"date":"2026-08-23T00:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78112\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:25:07","slug":"man-driving-stolen-vehicle-killed-in-east-melbourne-head-on-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78112\/","title":{"rendered":"Man driving stolen vehicle killed in East Melbourne head-on crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man who stole two cars has been killed after colliding with other vehicles in Melbourne overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 46-year-old man from Melton was driving a stolen white Subaru on the wrong side of the road when he collided with two other cars near Punt Road and Boulton Parade about 9pm, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man then got out of the Subaru and got into one of the vehicles he had collided with, a Mustang. The driver of the Mustang was not inside the car at the time and was uninjured, police reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the man then drove the Mustang erratically onto Barassi Way in East Melbourne, colliding head on with two more vehicles \u2014 a Range Rover and a Toyota Camry \u2014 which resulted in him being ejected from the Mustang and dying at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The woman driving the Range Rover sustained an arm injury and was taken to hospital, but the other motorist was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Subaru initially driven by the man was stolen from Glen Iris on August 20, according to police, and was bearing false numberplates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Brunton Avenue was closed to traffic while police examined the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone who witnessed the collision or who has dash-cam footage is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who stole two cars has been killed after colliding with other vehicles in Melbourne overnight. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[118453,118454,1991,17936,6906,69306,260,9986,1047,23111,29310],"class_list":["post-78112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-carjack","tag-carjacker","tag-crash","tag-east-melbourne","tag-fatal","tag-head-on","tag-melbourne","tag-melton","tag-police","tag-stolen","tag-stolen-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78112","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=78112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}