Overview
- A car struck a pole on Oaklands Avenue in Ferntree Gully just before 6pm, killing two passengers at the scene and leaving a man under police guard in hospital.
- Police say the circumstances of the Ferntree Gully crash are still being established and formal identification of the deceased is pending, with Victoria’s 2026 road toll now at 16.
- Earlier around 10am, an allegedly stolen Mazda collided with a Mercedes on the Monash Freeway at Endeavour Hills, sending the Mercedes driver to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
- Up to eight teenage boys fled the Mazda, with a 15-year-old detained after a citizen’s arrest and interviewed by police as others remained at large.
- As officers responded on the freeway, a Nissan sped from the emergency lane, crashed into six vehicles, and its driver and passenger fled on foot.