{"id":692460,"date":"2026-05-25T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:30:09","slug":"perth-traffic-police-incident-shuts-mitchell-freeway-northbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692460\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth traffic: Police incident shuts Mitchell Freeway northbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Motorists are being urged to avoid part of Mitchell Freeway after a police incident forced the closure of northbound lanes in Perth\u2019s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Mitchell Freeway is closed between Hepburn and Whitfords avenues in Padbury, with major crash officers at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It is understood the incident involves an alleged hit-an-run of a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 22-year-old man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Traffic is heavy on approach and drivers are being warned to take extra care when exiting via the Hepburn Avenue off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Motorists are being urged to consider using the Warwick Road exit as an alternative route while the incident is cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Drivers have been told to expect delays and plan ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists are being urged to avoid part of Mitchell Freeway after a police incident forced the closure of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,1191,45],"class_list":["post-692460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-traffic","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692460","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=692460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}