{"id":343306,"date":"2025-10-30T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:21:14","slug":"west-perth-crash-ute-involved-in-collision-that-killed-australia-post-worker-mightve-had-early-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343306\/","title":{"rendered":"West Perth crash: Ute involved in collision that killed Australia Post worker might\u2019ve had early crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

WA Police believe a ute that ploughed into a van in West Perth on Monday, killing an Australia Post employee, could have collided with another car before the fatal crash.<\/p>\n

In a new statement on Thursday, WA Police said they believed the Isuzu D Max may have been in involved in an earlier collision with a Suzuki Vitara.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported from the earlier crash.<\/p>\n

The suspected collision came before the ute crashed into a van on Hay Street around 7am on Monday with the force of the impact sending both vehicles into an office building.<\/p>\n

Australia Post worker and much-loved grandmother Theena Barton was delivering mail when the crash happened.<\/p>\n

\"NorandaCamera IconNoranda grandmother Theena Barton. Credit: Justine Russell\/Supplied<\/p>\n

The 74-year-old was critically injured and died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Investigators are urging anyone who travelled on Kwinana Freeway northbound from the Narrows Bridge to Hay Street between 6.30am and 6.40am to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to make a report online at www.crimestopperswa.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Due to the high volume of traffic in the area at the time, investigators are hopeful that motorists may have dash-cam footage relevant to the incident.<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe 74-year-old Australia Post employee died at the scene the collision involving the two vehicles. Credit: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n

Vision can be uploaded directly to investigators via this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Road Trauma Support WA 1300 004 814<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA Police believe a ute that ploughed into a van in West Perth on Monday, killing an Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,14736,50,14737,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-343306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-disaster-and-emergency","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-perth","12":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115463565950060285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}