{"id":306482,"date":"2025-10-24T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=306482"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:38:43","slug":"man-dies-after-fall-from-tram-in-west-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=306482","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after fall from tram in West Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The death of a man in West Melbourne has been reviewed and will be included in the lives lost tally, Victoria Police confirmed on October 22.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambulance crews were called to an incident in Errol St, West Melbourne about 10.45pm on September 29 where it is believed an 18-year-old man rendered himself unconscious after falling off the back of a tram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was taken to hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police were not notified of the incident at the time but have since investigated the matter and a report has been prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident, with footage or further information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on&nbsp;<strong>1800 333 000<\/strong>&nbsp;or online at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the current provisional lives lost tally please see:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.police.vic.gov.au\/road-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police.vic.gov.au\/road-safety<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was taken to hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":306525,"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":[35,190,47],"tags":[993,8,18548,9269],"class_list":["post-306482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-light-rail","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-west-melbourne","tag-yarra-trams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306482","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=306482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306526,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306482\/revisions\/306526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}