{"id":897858,"date":"2026-09-19T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897858\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:08:10","slug":"perth-traffic-kwinana-freeway-blocked-as-duck-ducklings-make-thriller-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897858\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth traffic: Kwinana Freeway blocked as duck, ducklings make thriller crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Kwinana Freeway southbound at Mount Henry Bridge was brought to a standstill on Saturday after a duck and its ducklings attempted to cross Perth\u2019s busiest road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Footage shows cars parked on the bridge as a number of Good Samaritans attempt to usher the little ducklings to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The duck and ducklings were eventually rescued, but not before traffic had backed up to a standstill back to Manning Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Later in the night, a reported crash wreaked havoc on South Western Highway as motorists travelled home on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The incident was located on the Highway on Bedfordale Hill Road and William Street in Mount Richon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash was reported by Main Roads at 7.10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Main Roads has advised drivers to exercise \u201cextreme\u201d caution if travelling in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The crash has since been cleared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kwinana Freeway southbound at Mount Henry Bridge was brought to a standstill on Saturday after a duck and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,1191,45],"class_list":["post-897858","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\/897858","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=897858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}