{"id":808642,"date":"2026-07-18T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808642\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:47:13","slug":"man-dies-after-car-rolls-over-on-south-western-highway-forcing-shut-down-of-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808642\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after car rolls over on South Western Highway, forcing shut down of road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">An elderly man has died after his car left the road and rolled in WA\u2019s Peel region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 69-year-old was on South Western Highway in North Dandalup when his black Holden Commodore station sedan left the carriageway and rolled at about 11am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police said the man, who was alone in the car at the time, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Both directions of traffic between Falls Road and Karnup Road were closed after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Major Crash investigators are appealing for witnesses to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Anyone with footage from dash-cam or mobile phone can be uploaded directly to investigators <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wapf.au.evidence.com\/axon\/community-request\/public\/mcis2026-182\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">If you or anyone you know has been affected by a road crash, contact Road Trauma Support WA on 1300 004 814.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly man has died after his car left the road and rolled in WA\u2019s Peel region. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,45],"class_list":["post-808642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808642","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=808642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}