{"id":785221,"date":"2026-05-09T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:31:12","slug":"melton-woman-fighting-for-life-after-melbourne-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785221\/","title":{"rendered":"Melton: Woman fighting for life after Melbourne hit and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed a \ufeffwoman in her 40s was riding an e-scooter on Swan Street near the intersection of Scott Street in Melton in Melbourne&#8217;s west when she was hit by a small white sedan at about 12.20 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The car failed to stop and was last seen driving away from the scene heading east along Swan Street.<\/p>\n<p>Items of clothing and shards of broken glass were seen at the site of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police are urging anyone who witnessed the collision or anyone with footage or further information to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEVER MISS A STORY:<\/strong> Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is believed a \ufeffwoman in her 40s was riding an e-scooter on Swan Street near the intersection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-785221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116546993444800579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785221","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=785221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}