Day: August 10, 2016

Police have arrested a woman following an alleged hit run collision which occurred in Mt Martha earlier this afternoon. The collision occurred on Forest Drive at 1.20pm when a 17-year-old Mt Martha boy was struck by a Toyota Land Cruiser travelling south. The 4×4 stopped at the scene but then allegedly drove off. Patrolling police located the car several streets away, outside a local school, and arrested the female driver. The boy was treated at the scene before being airlifted to hospital in a critical condition. The 46-year-old Mt Martha woman is currently being interviewed by detectives from the Major…

FIREFIGHTERS from Rosebud and Rye had to break down a laundry door to rescue a woman trapped in a burning house in Coleman Crescent, Rosebud, early this morning (Wednesday 10 August). The woman aged in her 40s had suffered a cardiac arrest in the single storey brick veneer when the fire took hold in her bedroom. Senior station officer Grant Kidd, of Rosebud CFA, said crews carried the non-responsive woman outside where she was revived by ambulance officers and airlifted to The Alfred hospital. He said the woman called triple zero at 6.16am and fire crews arrived within minutes. He…