{"id":17970,"date":"2026-03-13T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=17970"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:45:54","slug":"ararat-charges-over-armstrongc-triple-fatality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/03\/13\/ararat-charges-over-armstrongc-triple-fatality\/","title":{"rendered":"ARARAT: Charges over Armstrongc triple fatality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a fatal multi-vehicle collision in Armstrong last year.<br>Five vehicles were involved in a collision on the Western Hwy, near the intersection of Thomas Rd, about 12.30pm on May 28.<br>Two occupants of an Isuzu van, a 49-year-old male driver from Lyndhurst and 24-year-old female passenger from Clyde North, were pronounced deceased at the scene.<br>The male driver of a Toyota Kluger, a 65-year-old South Australian man, also died at the scene.<br>The driver of the semi-trailer, a 63-year-old Horsham man, and driver of a Volvo XC40, an 83-year-old Geelong woman, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.<br>The driver of an Isuzu small truck, a 52-year-old Corio man, was taken to hospital as a precaution.<br>Detectives last week charged the driver of the Isuzu small truck, a now 53-year-old Corio man, with three counts of dangerous driving causing He was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court on March 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a fatal multi-vehicle collision in Armstrong last year.Five vehicles were involved in a collision on the Western Hwy, near the intersection of Thomas Rd, about 12.30pm on May 28.Two occupants of an Isuzu van, a 49-year-old male driver from Lyndhurst and 24-year-old female passenger from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17970\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}