{"id":102258,"date":"2024-08-05T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=102258"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:48:16","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-bulleen-crash-between-a-truck-and-van-in-melbournes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=102258","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fatal Bulleen crash between a truck and van in Melbourne&#8217;s east"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One person is dead and another is fighting for life in hospital after a truck and car collided in Bulleen, in Melbourne&#8217;s east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash happened on the corner of Manningham and Bulleen roads about 5:40am on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver of the van, who is yet to be formally identified, died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A passenger in the van was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truck driver was also taken to hospital, but police said they had non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-25.png 862w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-25-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-25-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drivers have been told to avoid the area while investigations continue into the crash.<em>(ABC News)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Detectives from the Major Collision Investigation Unit are yet to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash caused major traffic delays and police advised drivers to avoid the area for several hours while investigations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident, has CCTV, dashcam footage or any other information that could assist police is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\">www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives from the Major Collision Investigation Unit are yet to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":102260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6407,8204],"tags":[993,4372,8],"class_list":["post-102258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-police-incident","category-roads","tag-melbourne","tag-rogue-trucks","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102261,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102258\/revisions\/102261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}