{"id":878046,"date":"2026-09-03T01:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:16:15","slug":"string-of-horrific-crashes-plague-perth-roads-in-early-morning-damp-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878046\/","title":{"rendered":"String of horrific crashes plague Perth roads in early-morning damp conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A string of crashes have unfolded in wet weather early this morning including a motorbike that collided with a car south of Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A man in his 50s was on a Black Honda motorbike on North Lake Road in South Lake when he collided with a Grey Holden Commodore sedan near Elderberry Drive at about 5.45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Holden driver was not hurt, but the motorcyclist was seriously injured and taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A major emergency was triggered after a single car rollover in the southbound lanes of Kwinana Freeway at the Safety Bay Road exit in Baldivis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police say a red Mitsubishi ute lost control and rolled just after 5am with the injuries of those involved not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Emergency crews remain at the scene as Main Roads warn of heavy traffic travelling south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A Toyota Hilux driver has also been taken to hospital after a crash in Darling Downs on South Western Highway near Thomas Road at about 6am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">St John Ambulance took a man in his 60s to Armadale Hospital where he is in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Main Roads has issued a warning of heavy traffic in both directions and advised drivers to proceed with caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A string of crashes have unfolded in wet weather early this morning including a motorbike that collided with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,1191,45],"class_list":["post-878046","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\/878046","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=878046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}