{"id":425741,"date":"2025-12-05T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425741\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:13:14","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-hit-run-in-mooroolbark-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425741\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fatal hit-run in Mooroolbark overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has died after a hit and run east of Melbourne overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to Manchester Road in Mooroolbark just before 2am after the man was found on the road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police stand on a road next to a police car at night.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2340bff91952e57b81826036295617cd\" 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\">Police in Mooroolbark overnight. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 28-year-old Lilydale man was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police believe a white SUV struck the Lilydale man before fleeing south along Manchester Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police car is parked across a road with cones and traffic safety personnel also on the road.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/af8dc56c917226f64f6c21c347bd8c00\" 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\">Police have set up a crime scene in Mooroolbark. (ABC News: Olivia Sanders)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Anyone with information or footage is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit the <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> website,&#8221; a police spokersperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after a hit and run east of Melbourne overnight. Emergency services were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,198240,198239,198241,50,5824,7207,8150],"class_list":{"0":"post-425741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-ead","10":"tag-mand","11":"tag-mooroolbark","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-on","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-road"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115665253960599317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425741","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=425741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}