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Police are calling for witnesses to a major three-car crash that saw five people, including two young children, taken to hospital on Wednesday.
A Kia Carnival van, Mazda 6 hatchback, and a Nissan Navara ute were all involved in the crash on Nicholson Road in Oakford just before midday.
The crash closed the road for about four hours as emergency services worked to help those injured.
The scene of the Oakford crash.Credit: 9 News Perth
The 58-year-old man driving the Nissan Navara was airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital with life-threatening injuries before being transferred to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital where he remains in a critical but stable condition.
The 32-year-old woman driving the Kia Carnival, a four-year-old girl and an infant who were also in the car, were taken to Royal Perth Hospital and Perth Children’s Hospital, while the 36-year-old man driving the Mazda 6 and his passenger, a 30-year-old man, were taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital.
A WA Police spokesman said their injures were not life-threatening.
Police have urged anyone who might have witnessed the crash, or who had dashcam vision, to contact Crime Stoppers as road policing group officers continue to investigate the incident.
This year has been a horrific one on Perth roads.
According to the Road Safety Commission, there have been 159 crash deaths, the highest in more than a decade, with the previous peak of 154 deaths in 2016.
Here’s what is making headlines elsewhere this morning.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared she is not going anywhere and rubbished suggestions Barnaby Joyce is about to take over from her as the boss of the conservative minor party. “My attitude is if someone can do a better job than I can, fair enough, but don’t write me off at the moment,” she told Sky News last night.
Two men have tragically died after being swept from Frankston Pier as extreme winds reaching 130 km/h wreaked havoc across Victoria yesterday evening, bringing down trees and cutting power to thousands of homes. Emergency services were called to Frankston Beach shortly before 4.45pm following reports two men were in trouble in the water. Both men were found unresponsive in the water just after 5pm. The pair were winched to shore, but they could not be revived.
Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, October 23.
Making headlines today is the warning that Perth’s population surge towards 3.5 million people is due to arrive sooner than expected.
That’s according to a host of experts who gathered on Wednesday for the Committee for Perth’s 2050 Summit, which aimed to “champion a plan for Perth’s future”.
The population milestone was first set out in the Committee for Perth’s 2012 Towards a Bright Future report, but University of Western Australia demographer Professor Amanda Davies told the audience on Wednesday that the city could now hit that figure by 2039.
“This is a very plausible scenario, considering the pipeline projects that we have locked in, and the push factors driving migration,” Davies said.
You can read the full story here.
129 Perth suburbs now have a median house price of more than $1,000,000.
Meanwhile, on the topic of growth, the median house price in our city is tipped to reach a “line in the sand” milestone before the end of the year.
According to the latest data from the Domain House Price Report for the September quarter, Perth prices climbed 1.6 per cent ($15,382) over the three-month period to a record median of $981,259.
Domain chief of research and economics Dr Nicola Powell said the latest growth has Perth’s real estate market sitting just $18,741 (1.9 per cent) below a median price of $1 million and is likely to reach this before the year’s end.
Read all about it here.
Thank you again for joining us this morning. Stay tuned as we bring you more news you need to know.
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