{"id":79235,"date":"2026-08-24T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79235\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:31:16","slug":"woman-dies-after-car-crashes-into-westfield-knox-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79235\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after car crashes into Westfield Knox in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old woman has died after a Tesla crashed into a bar at a Westfield in Melbourne\u2019s east.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was on a pedestrian crossing outside Westfield Knox, in Wantirna South, when the grey Tesla crashed into Martini and Co at around 12.45pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/cbe0b49aebfe56c05d1e02ce4fd40ea9\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"People run to help after Tesla crashes into Melbourne bar\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A police officer at the scene told the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/leader\/east\/woman-dead-aftercar-crashes-into-martini-co-bar-westfield-knox\/news-story\/3f6c49505b6117a021dffef020767cfc\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"3f6c49505b6117a021dffef020767cfc\" data-tgev-label=\"leader\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knox Leader <\/a>that the car allegedly failed to give way to a pedestrian as she crossed the road and then the vehicle spun out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders attempted to help the 27-year-old woman but she tragically died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 51-year-old woman, and passenger of the vehicle were both taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>On its Facebook page, Martini &amp; Co posted: \u201cDue to an accident at Westfield Knox, Martini &amp; Co Knox is temporarily closed until further notice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologise for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Please stay safe and we\u2019ll keep you updated when we can reopen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Onlookers posted about the horrific scene shortly after on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there and saw what was going on, very sad\u2026 our emergency services do an amazing job in situations like this, I used to be an Ambulance Chaplain \u2026 this stuff is hard to face,\u201d Gary Grant wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked pretty awful. When I left there were at least 10 different emergency service vehicles,\u201d Melissa Yelds Lacey wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire, ambulance, police, MICA paramedics and SES. Westfield staff were directing traffic and when I left more emergency vehicles were coming in<\/p>\n<p>More to follow. <\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old woman has died after a Tesla crashed into a bar at a Westfield in Melbourne\u2019s east.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43929,121320,121321,48360,68910,43289,121340,121326,121330,44757,2712,74320,121325,121341,93099,121348,121335,121337,15840,121332,93113,844,87275,121334,39,121336,121339,121343,121329,121327,260,121324,121345,121342,121328,121331,84934,121344,31822,1047,5663,51197,106,94612,121346,46523,41672,37471,121347,41663,121323,43131,37168,42251,37141,68109,2223,120616,121338,121311,121333,12205,121322],"class_list":["post-79235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-s-east","tag-27-year-old","tag-a-27-year-old-woman","tag-a-51-year-old-woman","tag-a-bar","tag-a-pedestrian","tag-a-tesla","tag-a-westfield","tag-a-westfield-shopping-centre","tag-a-young-woman","tag-ambulance","tag-an-accident","tag-an-amazing-job","tag-an-ambulance-chaplain","tag-any-inconvenience","tag-around-12-45pm","tag-at-least-10-different-emergency-service-vehicles","tag-car-crashes","tag-control","tag-control-bystanders","tag-diners","tag-fire","tag-further-notice","tag-gary-grant","tag-hospital","tag-its-facebook-page","tag-knoxa-police-officer","tag-martini-co","tag-martini-co-knox","tag-martini-and-co","tag-melbourne","tag-melissa-yelds-lacey","tag-mica-paramedics","tag-monday-a-27-year-old-woman","tag-more-emergency-vehicles","tag-non-life-threatening-injuries-on","tag-onlookers","tag-our-emergency-services","tag-passenger","tag-police","tag-ses","tag-situations","tag-social-media","tag-tesla","tag-the-27-year-old-woman","tag-the-car","tag-the-crash","tag-the-driver","tag-the-grey-tesla","tag-the-horrific-scene","tag-the-knox-leader","tag-the-road","tag-the-scene","tag-the-vehicle","tag-the-woman","tag-this-stuff","tag-traffic","tag-wantirna-south","tag-westfield-crash","tag-westfield-knox","tag-westfield-staff","tag-woman","tag-your-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79235","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=79235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}