{"id":801225,"date":"2026-07-15T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:39:11","slug":"wa-news-live-five-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-struck-by-landcruiser-in-perths-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801225\/","title":{"rendered":"WA news LIVE: Five-year-old boy dies after being struck by LandCruiser in Perth\u2019s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car in Perth\u2019s east on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier today, officers from WA Police\u2019s major crash unit are investigating after the boy and his mother were hit by a silver Toyota LandCruiser on Belgravia Street, Cloverdale, about 4.25pm on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>They were struck on the road next to a park where soccer training was taking place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police inspecting the 4WA involved in the crash. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/726975147d19bc46f8716cde803dfe99cceacaa05dff39ef462ca431801622d6.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Police inspecting the 4WA involved in the crash. 9News Perth<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses rushed to help, with one performing CPR on the child until paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was rushed to Perth Children\u2019s Hospital in a critical condition, while his mother, 48, was taken to Royal Perth Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed on Wednesday morning the five-year-old had died from his injuries. <\/p>\n<p>A WA Police spokesperson said the Toyota\u2019s driver stopped at the scene and was uninjured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car in Perth\u2019s east on Tuesday afternoon. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-801225","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801225","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=801225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}