{"id":200054,"date":"2025-09-04T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:09:10","slug":"freeway-horror-as-two-women-killed-in-craigieburn-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200054\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeway horror as two women killed in Craigieburn, Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two women have died after being struck by a car on a freeway on the outskirts of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Emergency services were called to the Hume Freeway at Craigieburn \u2014 about 45 minutes north of the Melbourne CBD \u2014 just after 7.30pm following reports two people had been hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Both women, who are yet to be identified, were taken to hospital but have since died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Investigations are ongoing but Victoria Police believe the pair may have been outside their vehicle assisting an injured animal when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Anyone who witnessed the accident or has dashcam footage is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women have died after being struck by a car on a freeway on the outskirts of Melbourne.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,110798,50,16571],"class_list":{"0":"post-200054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-car-accidents-melbourne","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-vic-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115147136335493920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200054","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=200054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}