{"id":84784,"date":"2025-08-21T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:04:12","slug":"police-officer-seriously-injured-in-crash-on-great-eastern-highway-in-irishtown-near-northam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84784\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer seriously injured in crash on Great Eastern Highway in Irishtown near Northam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A police officer has been seriously injured after the police car he was in crashed with a semi-trailer while on highway patrol duties near Northam.<\/p>\n

Road Policing Commander Mike Peters said the 26-year-old male probationary constable was in the marked patrol car when it collided with the truck on Great Eastern Highway in Irishtown about 10.55am on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The officer was rushed to Northam Regional Hospital under lights and sirens before he was later airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital by the RAC Rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n

Another policeman, 34, was fortunate to avoid serious injuries in the crash. He was being treated in Northam. Meanwhile, the driver of the semi-trailer was not injured.<\/p>\n

Cdr Peters said the two officers were based out of Midland\u2019s Road Policing Command. It is unknown which officer was driving at the time.<\/p>\n

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Sign up<\/a>\"AnCamera IconAn unmarked Police car is seen in a crash with two other vehicles on Bagot Road, Subiaco on Aug 21, 2025. Credit: Matt Jelonek\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

About 20 minutes after the crash in Irishtown, an unmarked police car collided with an 80-year-old woman\u2019s car as she was turning into a driveway in Subiaco.<\/p>\n

The police car was under lights and sirens responding to reports somebody was armed with a firearm before the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Police provided) immediate medical care (to the woman), as is always the case, and obviously, immediate contact with St John\u2019s paramedics to get people out there to assist the person at the time,\u201d Cdr Peters said.<\/p>\n

A St John WA spokeswoman said the woman was taken to Royal Perth Hospital. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n

A 23-year-old woman is assisting police with their enquires in relation to the reported firearm incident.<\/p>\n

\"AnCamera IconAn unmarked Police car is seen in a crash with two other vehicles on Bagot Road, Subiaco on Aug 21, 2025. Credit: Matt Jelonek\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

Cdr Peters said both crashes were a \u201cvery stark reminder to the community about the perils of policing in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur officers go out every day to protect the community and make it safe, and this is an example of how dangerous and difficult policing is and the work that our officers do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019ll also say, is we will wrap around all people affected by these crashes this morning and make sure their welfare is cared for and looked after. That includes our officers and any other member of the community that\u2019s been involved in these incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both crashes will be investigated by the major crash squad to determine if anyone was at fault.<\/p>\n

\"AnCamera IconAn unmarked Police car is seen in a crash with two other vehicles on Bagot Road, Subiaco on Aug 21, 2025. Credit: Matt Jelonek\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an ongoing investigation being conducted by our major crash investigation section, which is standard process for the internal investigations area to oversight these investigations,\u201d Cdr Peter said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police go out every day to do their absolute best to protect the community, and it is unfortunate that these events happen, and our hearts and mind goes out to all the people that may be affected by this, whether they\u2019re civilians, members of the public or members of the WA Police Force.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter told State Parliament on Thursday afternoon: \u201cOn behalf of all members, we\u2019re thinking of those two police officers who have been injured in that car accident, just north of Northam in my electorate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police are calling for anyone with information about either crash to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer has been seriously injured after the police car he was in crashed with a semi-trailer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63739,63740,43,44,1158,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-84784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-countryman","9":"tag-countryman-news","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84784","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=84784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}