MERRI-BEK: Driver charged
Fawkner Highway Patrol officers have charged a driver following a collision in Brunswick West on Thursday, June 4.
Emergency services were called to reports a car had struck a pedestrian at the intersection of Melville Rd and Victoria St just after 8.30am.
The pedestrian, a 70-year-old female, was transported to hospital with serious injuries.
The driver of the vehicle stopped momentarily but fled prior to police arrival.
A Brunswick man presented himself to a police station this morning.
The 40-year-old man has been charged with
• unlicensed driving
• fail to stop and render assistance at collision scene with serious injuries
• fail to render assistance at scene of serious collision
• fail to notify police of serious injury collision
He was bailed to appear at Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court on October 5.

