{"id":170894,"date":"2025-08-24T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170894\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T04:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:57:12","slug":"two-dead-after-head-on-collision-at-toolern-vale-north-west-of-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170894\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after head-on collision at Toolern Vale, north-west of Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision north-west of Melbourne this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say officers who had intercepted a vehicle at Toolern Vale saw another vehicle speeding along Diggers Rest-Coimadai Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">That vehicle then collided head-on with another car travelling in the opposite direction, killing both drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Neither have been formally identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A passenger travelling in the first vehicle was taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The investigation will be overseen by the Victoria Police Professional Standards Command because the collision occurred after police contact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone who witnessed the incident or who has CCTV or dashcam 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":"Two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision north-west of Melbourne this morning. Police say officers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,4903,12428,24348,97664,50,7207,97665,97666],"class_list":{"0":"post-170894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-fatal-crash","11":"tag-head-on-collision","12":"tag-melbourne-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-toolern-vale","16":"tag-two-drivers-killed"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081972482622376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}