{"id":42276,"date":"2025-07-06T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42276\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:33:06","slug":"three-dead-one-critical-in-crash-in-macedon-ranges-community-of-bolinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42276\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead, one critical in crash in Macedon Ranges community of Bolinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Three people have died after two SUVs collided on a rural road in the Macedon Ranges, north-west of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The crash took place on Bolinda-Darraweit Road in Bolinda about 7.20am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A wheel and other debris from a car lie on the grass beside a farm fence.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5fce710265c15f5880eefa47372349fa\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Debris from the crash was scattered across the road. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said three people from one of the vehicles died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A fourth from the same car was flown to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They were yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Many police officers in dark uniforms and bright yellow vests stand around two ambulances.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9b4382407f4b2bed60cb59eb1f4826f6\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Emergency services were called to the scene around 7.20am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver and sole occupant of the second vehicle was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The exact circumstances surrounding the collision are yet to be determined and investigations remain ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The crash has taken Victoria&#8217;s road toll for the year to 152 people, 11 more than at the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial shot of police, ambulance and SES vehicles parked on the side of a road bordered by trees and a paddock.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3f60bcb729b9b81121f2c2ae88410cb9\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The crash happened in the small Macedon Ranges locality of Bolinda. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone who witnessed the incident, has dashcam footage or any other information that could help police in their investigations is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died after two SUVs collided on a rural road in the Macedon Ranges, north-west of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,11767,33244,50,33243,8344],"class_list":{"0":"post-42276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-fatal","10":"tag-macedon-ranges","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-road-crash","13":"tag-victoria-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276","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=42276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}