A Mother\u2019s Day tragedy has left a mum of five fighting for life following a horrific hit-and-run in Melbourne\u2019s west. <\/p>\n
Tania Kerr, 41, sustained life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a car while riding an e-scooter in Melton on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n
The mother of five was returning home from a friend\u2019s house when she was hit on Swan Street just after 12.30am, with neighbours rushing to render assistance on the road. <\/p>\n
The vehicle that allegedly hit her, a small white hatch, failed to stop at the scene, escaping along Swan St towards O\u2019Niells Rd. <\/p>\n
The Melton mother was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she remains in an induced coma with critical head wounds and spinal injuries. <\/p>\n
Tania\u2019s partner Kayla Grech spent Mother\u2019s Day by her bedside, issuing the driver an impassioned plea to turn themselves in. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very angry, very hurt, lost for words really,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially to leave someone like that on the side of the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s an amazing person, she\u2019s loving, caring. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe best person you could ever ask for.\u201d <\/p>\n
Victoria Police Senior Sergeant Emile Caggiati said the Mother\u2019s Day hit-and-run was \u201cdeplorable\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s appalling really, any motorist that leaves the scene of collision where someone needs assistance, that behaviour is just deplorable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The senior sergeant urged e-scooter riders to take extra precaution when riding in the dark, saying they should be visible enough for drivers to see them. <\/p>\n
\u201cWear a helmet, and if you\u2019re travelling at night make sure you\u2019ve got lights operating and maybe wear some reflective gear just to help drivers be able to see you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mother\u2019s Day tragedy has left a mum of five fighting for life following a horrific hit-and-run in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9982,22,23,133,21,9979,9987,9981,9983,7257,9985,9980,260,9986,120,9984,3300,9988,68,9989],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-amazing-person","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-austrlia","tag-e-scooter-hit-run","tag-e-scooter-riders","tag-head-wounds","tag-impassioned-plea","tag-induced-coma","tag-kayla-grech","tag-life-threatening-injuries","tag-melbourne","tag-melton","tag-oceania","tag-reflective-gear","tag-royal-melbourne-hospital","tag-senior-sergeant","tag-victoria","tag-white-hatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","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=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}