{"id":615710,"date":"2026-04-18T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:05:10","slug":"burekup-crash-leaves-one-dead-another-fighting-for-life-after-crash-on-south-western-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615710\/","title":{"rendered":"Burekup crash leaves one dead, another fighting for life after crash on South Western Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A crash in Burekup, 165km south of Perth has left one man dead and another fighting for life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police say that at around 4:05pm on Friday a Mazda BT-50 dual cab on Henty Road collided with a LDV van on South Western Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 30-year-old male driver of the LDV van died from his injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 33-year-old male driver of the Mazda BT-50 sustained critical injuries and was conveyed to Bunbury Regional Hospital before being transferred on Saturday to Royal Perth Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.<\/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 contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash in Burekup, 165km south of Perth has left one man dead and another fighting for life.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,8984,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-615710","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-disaster-and-emergency","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615710","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=615710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}