{"id":490570,"date":"2026-01-04T00:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490570\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:17:10","slug":"two-killed-in-atv-crash-on-murchison-highway-on-tasmanias-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490570\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in ATV crash on Murchison Highway on Tasmania&#8217;s west coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two people have died after their ATV collided with a ute on a highway on Tasmania&#8217;s west coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 15-year-old girl from interstate and a 38-year-old Rosebery man, who were both on a Honda all-terrain vehicle, died at the scene on the Murchison Highway, between Zeehan and Rosebery on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said inquiries indicated the ATV and a Mitsubishi Triton collided on the highway. Emergency services were called about 4:30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver of the ute, a 40-year-old man, was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Tasmania Police would like to thank the group of interstate tourists who stopped and rendered medical assistance at the scene,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A police investigation is underway into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with the family and loved ones of both the deceased,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The highway was reopened to traffic overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died after their ATV collided with a ute on a highway on Tasmania&#8217;s west coast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[221249,4740,4903,9872,32311,221250,50,11121,7271,67241],"class_list":{"0":"post-490570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atv","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-girl","12":"tag-killed","13":"tag-murchison-highway","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tas","16":"tag-teen","17":"tag-west-coast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115833959123892216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490570","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=490570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}