{"id":821995,"date":"2026-07-25T01:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:19:15","slug":"perth-traffic-fiery-crash-on-tonkin-highway-in-martin-puts-two-in-hospital-and-closes-major-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821995\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth traffic: Fiery crash on Tonkin Highway in Martin puts two in hospital and closes major route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A fiery late-night crash has left two people in hospital and forced the closure of a major Perth highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Emergency services raced to Tonkin Highway in Martin about 10.11pm on Friday after two vehicles collided in the northbound lanes near Mills Road East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The force of the crash caused one of the vehicles to burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">One person was taken to Armadale Hospital and another was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The extent of their injuries is not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash sparked a major emergency response, with police closing the northbound lanes of Tonkin Highway between Albany Highway and Gosnells Road West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The closure remained in place on Saturday morning as crews continued their work at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Motorists have been urged to avoid the area, expect delays and seek an alternate route while the highway remains closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fiery late-night crash has left two people in hospital and forced the closure of a major Perth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,1191,45],"class_list":["post-821995","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\/821995","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=821995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}