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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n Save this article for later<\/p>\n Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n Got it<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Three people, including a 14-year-old boy, have died in separate crashes in Western Australia on Thursday, marking a tragic start to the Easter long weekend.<\/p>\n Two deadly incidents occurred in the Perth Hills region just five minutes apart.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At about 4.25pm, a silver Ford F-150 utility vehicle collided with an off-road motorbike on Albany Highway, between Admiral and Narbethong roads in Bedfordale.<\/p>\n The rider, a 14-year-old boy, died at the scene.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old ute driver was not injured.<\/p>\n Five minutes later and 20 kilometres north, a 30-year-old man crashed his Harley Davidson motorcycle while travelling south along Kingsbury Drive in Jarrahdale.<\/p>\n He also died at the scene.<\/p>\n At 9.45pm an 18-year-old woman died after the white Nissan Patrol she was a passenger in rolled on the mudflats alongside Rowan Street in Derby.<\/p>\n The 4WD had four occupants at the time.<\/p>\n Two 17-year-old male passengers and the 19-year-old male driver escaped injury.<\/p>\n The driver is helping police with their investigation.<\/p>\n Anyone with dash-cam or vision relating to the Derby crash can upload it here<\/a>, the Bedfordale crash here<\/a> and Jarrahdale crash here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The latest fatalities bring the state\u2019s road toll to 48 for the year and come despite a week of intensive pleas from authorities ahead of Easter.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Road Safety Minister Reece Whitby said he wanted a \u201czero Easter road toll\u201d this year following five fatalities in 2025 and six in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going all out to achieve that; every available police officer will be on the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be that concentration in the so-called \u2018arc of influence\u2019 around Perth into the regions where people are going to be on the roads.\u201d<\/p>\n Road Policing Commander Mike Peters urged the community to \u201cmake good choices\u201d as WA Police deployed a new fleet of high-visibility vehicles.<\/p>\n The fleet includes four BMW X5s for the highway patrol team and three for the road policing group.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Hamish](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/07ef20e984b872b4ba7b8d62f82c29b34424604d.png\")
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