{"id":1687,"date":"2025-07-17T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1687\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:55:16","slug":"tonkin-highway-crash-major-crash-officers-reveal-what-happened-to-man-found-dead-on-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1687\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonkin Highway crash: Major crash officers reveal what happened to man found dead on road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police are treating the death of a man who was found dead on a major highway in Perth\u2019s east as a hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Emergency services rushed to the scene after reports a man was found with \u201csignificant injuries\u201d on Tonkin Highway, north of Benara Road in Noranda about 2.25am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cbea3e0c7b487b7221c60eb2f1ec554d1a4e80e5.jpg\" alt=\"Police say they believe the man was hit by a car that left the scene.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconPolice say they believe the man was hit by a car that left the scene. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">When police and St John WA arrived, the man, in his 40s, was declared dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police say they believe the man was hit by a car that left the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/62f089d18d08cddedd35d4996d2d57b84c5d4f65.jpg\" alt=\"Major crash officers are investigating after a man was killed on Tonkin Highway in Noranda.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMajor crash officers are investigating after a man was killed on Tonkin Highway in Noranda. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A woman is assisting police with their inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Tonkin Highway was closed for more than 12 hours as police investigated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/47432aae6f3ba34c3f2f773deac1d29c0ec26a71.jpg\" alt=\"Major crash officers are investigating.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMajor crash officers are investigating. Credit: Riley Churchman\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Major Crash investigators are conducting an examination of the scene and are appealing for any witnesses to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or report the information online atwww.crimestopperswa.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are treating the death of a man who was found dead on a major highway in Perth\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,47,46,41,39,42,40,1191,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-1687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-north","11":"tag-perth","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-traffic","17":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}