{"id":18907,"date":"2025-07-24T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18907\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:19:09","slug":"perth-traffic-crashes-on-tonkin-highway-in-redcliffe-and-guildford-road-in-mount-lawley-cause-peak-hour-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18907\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth traffic: Crashes on Tonkin Highway in Redcliffe and Guildford Road in Mount Lawley cause peak-hour chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Multiple crashes across Perth caused peak-hour traffic chaos for commuters on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A collision between a truck and three cars on Tonkin Highway southbound reduced the road to a single lane at Great Eastern Highway in Redcliffe about 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Five St John WA vehicles were dispatched to the scene and fuel was spilled across the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A woman in her 50s was taken to Royal Perth Hospital under normal road conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Video from the scene showed cars stopped in the far left lane and the far right lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash caused major congestion in the area and motorists were urged to exercise extreme caution. The crash was cleared just before 6pm but Main Roads WA advised traffic remained heavy on approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Another crash on Guildford Road in Mount Lawley has caused heavy traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash which happened just before 4pm forced the closure of the eastbound road just after First Avenue. The road was re-opened at 4.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple crashes across Perth caused peak-hour traffic chaos for commuters on Thursday afternoon. A collision between a truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,1191,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-18907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-perth","12":"tag-traffic","13":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907","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=18907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}