Six Fatalities on Western Australian Roads over ANZAC Long Weekend
Thursday April 30, 2009
Western Australia encountered six road fatalities over the ANZAC long weekend including a horror smash in Marangaroo and the death of a motorcyclist near Augusta.
There fatal crash in Marrangaroo occurred on Friday and claimed two lives of husband and wife 89-year-old Norman Young and 85-year-old Olwyn Young. Mrs. Young died at the scene while Mr Young died at Royal Perth Hospital on Tuesday evening.
Major Crash investigators are currently asking for witnesses to the incident that occurred about 1pm at the intersection of Wanneroo Road and Mrangaroo Drive, Marangaroo.
The 56-year-old biker died after he swerved to miss a dead fox on Brookman Hwy about 5pm - before losing control and hitting a tree.
A man aged in his 50s was killed after a crash in the Wheatbelt town of Meckering on Friday morning.
A 23-year-old Irishman who was in Australia on a working holiday, was killed in a smash late on Friday night in Doubleview.
Then a 39-year-old man died in hospital after a crash in Bentley at 7am on Sunday.
Another six people were hospitalised from three of the Anzac weekend accidents - two of them with serious injuries.
