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Tragic crash on Perth highway kills four, police investigation continues
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/13/2025
WA Police have commenced an investigation into a horror crash on a major Perth highway that killed four people. Dashcam footage obtained from the driver's vehicle has been identified as key evidence in understanding how this crash occurred.
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It was just after half past three local time in Perth yesterday morning when this major
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crash occurred between a four-wheel drive and a taxi.
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They collided head on on Leach Highway in Cloverdale near Perth's airport.
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Now police confirmed that four people died at the scene who were all West Australians.
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Police say this four-wheel drive, the driver was driving on the wrong lane of Leach Highway
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when it collided head on with the taxi.
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The driver of that four-wheel drive is yet to be formally identified, however, died at
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the scene.
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A 58-year-old taxi driver also died at the scene.
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Police also confirmed there were two female passengers in the taxi, 156 and 181.
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They were mother and daughter and they were in the back of the taxi and they also died
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at the scene.
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There were pictures shared on social media quite confronting images of this crash.
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The four-wheel drive, once it hit the taxi, it was completely engulfed in flames and emergency
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services had to quickly arrive at the scene.
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Major crash investigators were also at the scene in the morning picking up the debris
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and towing away those two cars.
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Now police gave a major update in the afternoon about this investigation.
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They said they were surprised they were able to locate dash cam footage inside the four-wheel
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drive, the one that was engulfed in flames at the scene.
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Now there were only some files on that dash cam footage but they were able to view it
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and they said there is evidence now to suggest that the driver had been driving erratically
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and over the speed limit throughout some suburbs and had been driving on the wrong side of
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the road for quite some time before it hit the taxi, however, it had cut out before that
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moment of impact, so that was quite significant evidence and they say they'll be using that
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to determine what the reason was for this incident in Perth.
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WA's road toll in 2024 was the highest it has been since 2016 with 186 people dead,
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so this was not the start of the year that people were really after.
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