{"id":162451,"date":"2025-09-23T03:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162451\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:06:12","slug":"man-accused-of-hitting-42yo-with-vehicle-in-kalgoorlie-to-appear-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162451\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of hitting 42yo with vehicle in Kalgoorlie to appear in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 29-year-old Kalgoorlie man is set to face court today after detectives from WA Police&#8217;s Homicide Squad charged him with murder, two days after the death of a man in the state&#8217;s Goldfields. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is accused of deliberately hitting a 42-year-old man, whose identity is not yet known, with a vehicle in the Kalgoorlie suburb of West Lamington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police allege the man was struck about 1:35am on Sunday, but emergency services say they were not alerted until 5:50am, more than four hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 42-year-old man was found unconscious with critical injuries on Hawkins Street near the Kalgoorlie Arboretum, a popular dog exercise park, and died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police forensic officers at a crime scene.   \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6bb89f462b8da660f58e11fe3369f7d5\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Forensic officers on the scene near the Kalgoorlie Arboretum. (ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police responded alongside St John Ambulance crews to reports of an unconscious man on Hawkins Street, near Memorial Drive, which runs parallel to the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, about 5:50am on Sunday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Forensic officers and detectives have been at the scene for the past two days, with the arboretum and surrounding streets cordoned off. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 29-year-old man, who was remanded in custody overnight, is due to appear in the Kalgoorlie Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An unmarked police car with a forensics officer inside drives through a crime scene in Kalgoorlie.  \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/25c9de15340b998e1e201b1321290537\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police and ambulance crews responded to reports of an unconscious man about 5:50am on Sunday. (ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old Kalgoorlie man is set to face court today after detectives from WA Police&#8217;s Homicide Squad charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,107347,1300,107351,107348,66236,105961,107350,107349,44,1158],"class_list":["post-162451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-critical-injuries","tag-death","tag-detectives","tag-hawkins-street","tag-kalgoorlie","tag-kalgoorlie-arboretum","tag-major-crime-division","tag-memorial-drive","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}