Woman charged after fatal collision

Tara Murray

A Broadmeadows woman has been charged following a fatal collision in Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday.

Police allege a stolen Honda Civic sedan, driven by the woman with a female passenger on board, struck a man driving a motorised scooter and a pedestrian at the intersection of King and Latrobe streets just before 7pm.

The motorised scooter driver received life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital where he later died.

The pedestrian, a 58-year-old Maidstone man, received minor injuries and was taken to hospital.

The car was intercepted by police at the intersection of Emu Parade and Gavin Street, Jacana about 7.20pm.

The two women were arrested and hospitalised with minor injuries.

A 20-year-old Broadmeadows woman has been charged with culpable driving causing death, reckless conduct endangering life/serious injury, theft of a motor vehicle and other driving offences, and committing an indictable offence while on bail.

Her passenger, a 35-year-old woman of no fixed address, remains in hospital and is assisting investigators with their enquiries.