{"id":64177,"date":"2026-08-03T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/64177\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:27:13","slug":"two-people-killed-child-critically-injured-after-car-hits-caravan-near-shark-bay-in-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/64177\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people killed, child critically injured after car hits caravan near Shark Bay in WA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have been killed and two others are in a critical condition after a serious crash in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the scene of a two-vehicle collision south of the Overlander Roadhouse near Shark Bay at about 11:30am.<\/p>\n

“Two vehicles, one of which was towing a caravan, collided, causing the caravan to roll,” a WA Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“Two people have died as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n

“A 12-year-old passenger sustained critical injuries and is being airlifted to Perth for medical treatment.”<\/p>\n

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The North West Coastal Highway has been closed between Overlander Roadhouse and Billabong Roadhouse. (Supplied: Rhys Chivers)<\/p>\n

The child and surviving adult were receiving treatment for critical injuries from two doctors and a nurse aboard an emergency jet, according to RFDS.<\/p>\n

They were taken from the crash site to Shark Bay Airport, about 830km north of Perth, for the evacuation.<\/p>\n

The child will be transferred to Perth Children’s Hospital and the adult to Royal Perth Hospital upon arrival at Jandakot Airport.<\/p>\n

\"Travellers<\/p>\n

Travellers wait at Overlander Roadhouse, where the highway is blocked due to the crash. (Supplied: James Capener)<\/p>\n

The North West Coastal Highway has been closed by WA Police and motorists are being asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n

Officers from the Major Crash Investigation Section are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n

‘A lot of confusion’<\/p>\n

Dozens of cars, caravans, and road trains have stopped at the Overlander Roadhouse, with the arterial highway currently at its busiest for the region’s winter tourist period.<\/p>\n

James Capener was driving from the Pilbara to Perth with his family when he was turned around by police.<\/p>\n

“There’s still a lot of people arriving now with boats and trailers and more trucks,” he told the ABC.<\/p>\n

Mr Capener said the nearest caravan park was already fully booked and most vehicles were pulling over along the side of the road.<\/p>\n

“There is a lot of confusion \u2026 it went from that five hour [delay] to that 24 hours really quick,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Drivers have had no choice but to park on the side of the North West Coastal Highway. (Supplied: James Capener)<\/p>\n

Mr Capener said his thoughts were with the victims.<\/p>\n

“We were about 300 metres away from it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And you think, if you were half an hour earlier or 20 minutes, or you didn’t stop at the roadhouse before, you could be involved in that.<\/p>\n

“You do feel for the people that are involved in the families, and our prayers go out to them.”<\/p>\n

According to the Road Safety Commission, there have been 131 fatalities on WA roads, compared to 123 this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been killed and two others are in a critical condition after a serious crash in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,1610,77941,1991,36154,21770,77943,4224,77940,77942,20238,27671,464],"class_list":["post-64177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-breaking-news","tag-car-collided-with-caravan","tag-crash","tag-gascoyne-news","tag-highway-closed","tag-is-north-west-coastal-highway-open","tag-main-roads","tag-north-west-coastal-highway","tag-overlander-roadhouse","tag-pilbara-news","tag-shark-bay","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64177","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=64177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}