Updated December 8, 2025 — 11:59am,first published December 8, 2025 — 10:37am
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Restaurant workers have described their horror at finding a man unresponsive and bloodied after a car crashed into a medical centre in Melbourne’s north, also injuring a woman.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Keilor Road and Hoffmans Road after reports of a car mowing down a pedestrian on the footpath before crashing into the Essendon Health Medical Centre at about 9.30am.
An SES tent was erected in Niddrie after a car ploughed into a pedestrian and through a shopfront.Eddie Jim
A woman, aged in her 50s, who was inside the building, was also struck and airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
She has been taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with upper and lower body injuries. The pedestrian died at the scene.
Tanvir, a chef at Sumac Lebanese Cuisine four doors down from the medical centre, spoke through tears on Monday after he ran out of the restaurant to see the man unresponsive, lying on the ground.
Police told restaurant staff they did not have to close up early, but by midday, the restaurant was dark – tables and chairs stacked, its floors freshly mopped – as workers were too upset to carry on with their day.
The man struck by the car was dead “on the spot”, Tanvir said.
“I saw this experience for the first time in my life. So I am really upset because I can’t even focus on my work, probably that’s why I have to leave earlier today,” said the chef, who asked for his surname not to be published.
Sumac’s manager, Sam, who also asked for her name not to be published, said bystanders rushed to help remove the man’s shirt as he lay on the ground, so he could be treated.
They said paramedics arrived up to 15 minutes after the crash.
Sam and Tanvir, who work at Sumac Lebanese Cuisine, four doors down from the crash.Eddie Jim
“The people around certainly did help,” Sam said. “They helped the injured … everyone was around. Everyone came on.”
In a video The Age has decided not to publish, the man who died is lying bloodied on the ground, surrounded by the broken glass of the medical centre’s smashed wall.
The driver, a 63-year-old Maribyrnong man, was also taken to hospital with injuries under police guard.
Staff at a radiology clinic next door said they heard a “bang” when the car hit the medical centre. All businesses near the medical centre are now inaccessible behind police tape.
The area surrounding the medical centre was chaotic on Monday as dozens of onlookers gathered on nearby footpaths to see what had happened.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal collision in Niddrie this morning.Nine News
“It’s giving me goosebumps. It’s a pretty hectic intersection, because there’s cars coming through … and the trams coming through, it’s congested,” local resident Bianca Christou said through tears. “But it’s the time of day when everyone is out and having a little shop.”
An SES tent was erected outside the centre, while the intersection metres away was taped off. A smashed glass wall of the centre was visible through police tape.
Several trams nearby were at a standstill, surrounded by fire trucks and at least seven police vehicles.
Officers on the scene were talking to concerned members of the public as reporters started to arrive.
The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collision remain ongoing.
A pedestrian died at the scene, while a woman inside the building was also struck and airlifted to hospital.Eddie JimSave
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