{"id":262359,"date":"2025-11-04T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:51:15","slug":"man-dies-five-people-injured-in-kununurra-crash-in-remote-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262359\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies, five people injured in Kununurra crash in remote WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has died and five other people have been seriously injured in a crash in Western Australia&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The crash happened just after 6pm on Monday on the outskirts of Kununurra, about 3,000 kilometres north of Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">WA Police said two vehicles collided on the Victoria Highway near Valentine Springs Road and Weero Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 49-year-old man, who was the passenger in a white Toyota HiLux, died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, police said the driver and another passenger were also injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The 36-year-old male driver and 27-year-old female passenger of the Hilux were airlifted to Darwin with critical injuries,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the 30-year-old female driver of the second vehicle, a white Toyota Fortuner, was flown to Perth with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two children who were in the same car suffered critical injuries and were also flown to Perth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a close up of a road sign saying Weero Rd. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b7d8900c04797191c6099455b71f3df5\" 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\">WA Police said a Toyota Fortuner and a Toyota HiLux collided on the Victoria Highway near Weero Road.\u00a0 (ABC Kimberley: Giulia Bertoglio)<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Highway closed<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Victoria Highway remains closed between Valentine Springs Road and Weero Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Motorists are advised to seek alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Crash Investigators are expected to arrive in Kununurra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have urged anyone with information or footage of the incident to content them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died and five other people have been seriously injured in a crash in Western Australia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1154,153950,11224,153949,22561,37626,44,153948],"class_list":{"0":"post-262359","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-crash","11":"tag-east-kimberley","12":"tag-fatal","13":"tag-ivanhoe","14":"tag-kimberley","15":"tag-kununurra","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-victoria-highway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262359","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=262359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}