{"id":25007,"date":"2026-06-04T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:32:11","slug":"man-dies-in-hospital-after-transperth-bus-crash-in-wanneroo-in-perths-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25007\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in hospital after Transperth bus crash in Wanneroo in Perth&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 61-year-old passenger who was critically hurt in a bus crash in Perth&#8217;s northern suburbs has died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was one of seven passengers who were injured when the driver of a Transperth bus lost control on Joondalup Drive in Wanneroo around 11am on Thursday and crashed into a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was taken to Joondalup Health Campus for treatment and later transferred to Royal Perth Hospital (RPH), but died overnight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police standing in front of a bus that is badly damaged after colliding with a tree\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f23017a6da019dba3393bc594b9128d2.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police say the driver lost control of the bus &#8220;for unknown reasons&#8221;. (ABC News: Mya Kordic)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 59-year-old woman who was critically injured in the crash remains in RPH in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The bus driver, a 56-year-old man, was also taken to RPH for medical treatment, while five other passengers received minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">One of them, a 26-year-old man believed to have been seated at the back of the bus, has been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A street sign for Joondalup Dr is seen in the foreground with a bus crashed into a tree in the background\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780615931_804_60ebb377c40822c0c3a1043bbeacfde7.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Joondaup Drive was closed between Burns Beach Road and Wanneroo Road after the crash.\u00a0 (ABC News: Mya Kordic)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It is not known what caused the driver to lose control of the bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said inquiries into the crash were ongoing, asking anyone with information or footage relating to the accident to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The crash forced the closure of Joondalup Drive between Burns Beach Road and Wanneroo Road for much of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old passenger who was critically hurt in a bus crash in Perth&#8217;s northern suburbs has died from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12186,23142,1328,1327,335,10729,463,23141,23143,464,2674],"class_list":["post-25007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-bus-crash","tag-joondalup-drive","tag-news-perth","tag-news-wa","tag-perth","tag-perth-crash","tag-perth-news","tag-transperth","tag-transperth-bus-crash","tag-wa-news","tag-wanneroo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}