{"id":15980,"date":"2024-02-29T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=15980"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T03:05:10","slug":"truck-driver-kills-motorcyclist-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=15980","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver kills motorcyclist in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another truck driver kills a vulnerable road user (motorcyclist this time). Maybe Melbourne has too many trucks? A truck a minute at this school crossing (photo from MTAG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal crash in Nunawading this morning. The male rider died at the scene.<br><br>Anyone who witnessed the crash, with dashcam footage or info is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 <br><br>More at \u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XbBJfbZ0hb\">https:\/\/t.co\/XbBJfbZ0hb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Victoria Police (@VictoriaPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoriaPolice\/status\/1762968648543793240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A continuing devaluation of life on Melbourne roads swamped by trucks putting the lives of other road users and pedestrians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No where else in the world would you see so many trucks on local roads.  If Vicroads were series about road safety then heavy vehicles should be immediately reduced to a maximum speed of 80 km\/h and 40 km\/h in a local street or road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another truck driver kills a vulnerable road user (motorcyclist this time). Maybe Melbourne has too many trucks? A truck a minute at this school crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15653,"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":[273,163,5],"tags":[472,9,993,4910,8],"class_list":["post-15980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-transport","tag-australian","tag-freight","tag-melbourne","tag-mtag","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15987,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions\/15987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}