{"id":191198,"date":"2025-10-05T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191198\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:37:10","slug":"mitchell-freeway-northbound-reopens-after-fatal-incident-on-sunday-morning-involving-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191198\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Freeway northbound reopens after fatal incident on Sunday morning involving pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Mitchell Freeway reopened on Sunday afternoon after being shut for nearly 12 hours following a fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Major crash investigators say a pedestrian was struck by a car heading northbound near the Cedric Street overpass about 3.25am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Main Roads said the northbound lanes of the Mitchell Freeway between Cedric Street and Karrinyup Road were closed before reopening about 2.15pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9ef3a6c04d310a3d18085bd15e87e938a4f6d220.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic hours after the incident occurred on Sunday.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconTraffic hours after the incident occurred on Sunday. Credit: Main Roads WA\/X<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It is understood the freeway was closed as part of the police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Traffic remains heavy in the area, including on Scarborough Beach Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Anyone with dash-cam footage of the incident is asked to contact crime stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Dash-cam or mobile phone vision can be uploaded directly to police <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wapf.au.evidence.com\/axon\/community-request\/public\/innalooincident\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Lifeline: 131 44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mitchell Freeway reopened on Sunday afternoon after being shut for nearly 12 hours following a fatal incident.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1191,45],"class_list":["post-191198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traffic","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191198","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=191198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}