The Easter long weekend has started with a nightmare for one family with a boy critically injured after he was hit by a car on a busy road in WA’s South West.
Shannon Hampton
WA’s Easter weekend has seen a tragic start with two dead in a horror crash in Lower Chittering on Thursday morning, in what Premier Roger Cook has called a reminder for other road users.
Several people have been taken to hospital after a multi-car crash on the notorious Indian Ocean Drive.
Police and road safety authorities are urging WA drivers to aim for zero fatalities this Easter period, with double demerits due to kick in from midnight tonight.
Phil Hickey
A bus has crashed into a guard rail before careering into a small creek, injuring 13 people on board.
Savannah Meacham
New data has revealed the most dangerous areas and roads for hitting a kangaroo in WA.
Lauren Price
A Warnbro dad crawled through glass to free his six-year-old daughter after the reckless actions of a fellow motorist on the Kwinana Freeway last Saturday left his car on its roof.
Rachel Fenner
A man allegedly pointed a gun at an innocent motorist during a terrifying road rage incident in Perth’s southern suburbs on Thursday.
Phil Hickey and Rachel Fenner
A crash early this morning has brought commuters to a standstill on Mitchell Freeway in Perth’s north.
Mitchell Walsh has been granted parole after serving time over a string of historical traffic offences, but he won’t be staying in WA.
Nicole Tolhurst would be dead today had Rod Baltovich not raced to her aid after finding her slumped over the steering wheel in her wreck of a car.
The Metronet worker killed when he was struck by a car in a park across from the Bayswater Train Station was ‘having a nap during a lunch break’, it has been confirmed.
Josh Zimmerman
A Bayswater resident who lives next door to the park where a ‘sleeping’ Metronet worker was hit by a car claims she’s seen workers doing very ‘long hours’ before the fatal incident on her doorstep.
Caleb Runciman
A Metronet worker has died after he was hit by a car on his lunch break.
Caleb Runciman and Lauren Price
Police are investigating after a man and a woman were seriously injured in a late-night truck crash in Perth’s south east.
A motorcyclist killed in a crash at the weekend posted videos riding either one-handed or with no hands and once told her followers someone had predicted she would ‘die on that thing’.
A woman has been flown to Perth after a serious crash in Yanchep.
A young motorcyclist has been remembered as a ‘beautiful soul’ after she died in a crash near Perth Airport on Friday.
The most advanced road safety cameras in the nation will be on WA roads this year, targeting motorists who don’t wear seatbelts and who use their mobile phones behind the wheel.
Joe Spagnolo
Major crash detectives are investigating a fatal crash where a woman died after hitting a road barrier in Perth’s eastern suburbs. It came after another motorcyclist died in a Wheatbelt accident.
Hannah Cross
Two teen girls are in a stable condition in hospital and a third has been discharged after a serious crash south of Perth on Friday night.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Two teen girls were flown to hospital, and another taken by ambulance after a serious crash south of Perth early on Friday evening.
Major crash officers are investigating a fatal crash, 5km west of Brookton, after a 70-year-old man suffered critical injuries in a single vehicle motorcycle accident.
Daniel Rooney and Caleb Runciman
A police car has been T-boned and rolled onto its roof in Perth’s south.
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