Daily London
Emergency services were called to Keilor Road in Niddrie about 9.20am today after a car struck a person on a footpath before smashing into the front of a doctor’s office at a busy intersection.
A male pedestrian near an adjacent tram stop died at the scene.
Paramedics also treated a woman aged in her 50s who was in a consulting room with a doctor at the time of the crash.
She was airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with serious upper and lower body injuries.
The doctor was uninjured.
The 63-year-old male driver of the car has been taken to hospital with injuries, where he remains under police guard.
The driver is yet to be formally interviewed by police.
It remains unclear what exactly caused the crash.
Detective Inspector Craig McEvoy said the car, a silver Alfa Romeo, did not appear to brake before it smashed 30-metres into the medical centre.
“Nothing has suggested to me that the design or the infrastructure of the intersection has contributed to it in any way,” McEvoy added.
He said it was fortunate the car missed the waiting room and reception area.
McEvoy said the pedestrian who was killed was sadly in the “wrong place at the wrong time”.
“It’s the Christmas period, slow down. Take care,” he added.
”Slow down, enjoy time with your loved ones.”
The intersection of Keilor Road and Hoffmans Road has been closed to traffic and trams in all directions following the crash.
Police said the road will reopen later this afternoon.
Major crash investigators are now assessing the scene.
