{"id":499107,"date":"2026-01-07T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:40:13","slug":"indian-ocean-drive-and-yanchep-beach-road-crash-motorcycle-rider-killed-in-horror-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499107\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Ocean Drive and Yanchep Beach Road crash: Motorcycle rider killed in horror collision"},"content":{"rendered":"

A motorcycle rider has died in a collision on a notorious Perth road in what is believed to be the first fatal crash in the metro area for 2026.<\/p>\n

A 56-year-old male was riding a black Kawasaki motorcycle when it collided with a silver Kia Carnival van at the intersection of Indian Ocean Drive and Yanchep Beach Road about 12pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Emergency services attended the crash, with St John WA confirming three ambulance crews were dispatched, but the man died at the scene.<\/p>\n

All lanes of Wanneroo Road were shut to motorists between Pipidinny and Old Yanchep roads, with Yanchep Beach Road also facing closures between Yanchep National Park entry and Wanneroo Road.<\/p>\n

Main Roads confirmed about 5.05pm the area had been cleared and traffic was flowing.<\/p>\n

Police are now investigating the fatal collision, with major crash investigators appealing for any witnesses to make a report to Crime Stoppers online here<\/a> or by calling 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n

Dash-cam or mobile phone vision relating to this crash can be uploaded directly to investigators here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcycle rider has died in a collision on a notorious Perth road in what is believed to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50,14737,314,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-499107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-perth","11":"tag-traffic","12":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854339267662469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499107","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=499107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}