{"id":99761,"date":"2025-07-28T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:07:21","slug":"tourists-warned-of-unsafe-coral-bay-road-after-man-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99761\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists warned of ‘unsafe’ Coral Bay Road after man killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A caravan park manager in Coral Bay says two road crashes in successive months is proof the road leading into the tourist town is too dangerous.<\/p>\n

The warning comes after a 25-year-old man was killed in a crash on Coral Bay Road on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Police say the man’s Toyota Hilux collided with a white Volkswagen sedan near the Minilya-Exmouth Road turn-off.<\/p>\n

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The 25-year-old man was taken to the Coral Bay Nursing Post with critical injuries but died. (ABC News: Alistair Bates)<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old woman driving the Volkswagen suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Royal Perth Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

“The road is unsafe \u2026 [it is] very narrow and winding,” caravan park manager Jacqui Price said.<\/p>\n

“We have huge numbers of caravans, big boats, people towing trailers, a lot of international visitors who might not have had experience driving on the roads up here.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A 25-year-old woman had to be airlifted to hospital after a crash on the same stretch of road last month.<\/p>\n

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Jacqui Price manages the Bayview caravan park in Coral Bay. (Supplied: Jacqui Price)<\/p>\n

And a woman was killed in another crash on Minilya-Exmouth road in October last year.<\/p>\n

Concern for busy winter months<\/p>\n

The coastal town of Coral Bay, 1,100km north of Perth, is a tourist hotspot during winter and is renowned for its diverse sea life and secluded beaches.<\/p>\n

Ms Price said during the winter months the road was used by hundreds of people every day.<\/p>\n

Minilya-Exmouth Road was upgraded in 2023 in a bid to improve safety ahead of a rare total solar eclipse<\/a> that brought tens of thousands of visitors to the Coral Coast.<\/p>\n

Ms Price said she would like to see the same upgrades on Coral Bay Road.<\/p>\n

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Coral Bay’s beaches and marine life make it a popular tourist spot during winter. (ABC News: Alistair Bates)<\/p>\n

“After the Minilya turn-off they did widen the road and that’s a nice bit of a road now with plenty of room,” she said.<\/p>\n

“But it only lasts a couple of kilometres and then the rest of it is just very thin, windy road which is really unsafe.”<\/p>\n

Main Roads WA has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n

Ms Price urged tourists to take their time when driving to Coral Bay.<\/p>\n

“People can get tired after travelling long distances; just be alert,” she said.<\/p>\n

“There’s also a lot of wildlife out on the road and big trucks. So just slow down and be safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A caravan park manager in Coral Bay says two road crashes in successive months is proof the road…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,65205,65203,65204,4903,65208,65209,50,65206,65207,8632,31977],"class_list":{"0":"post-99761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-coral-bay-directions","10":"tag-coral-bay-road","11":"tag-coral-bay-travel","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-gascoyne-news","14":"tag-man-killed","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-perth-to-coral-bay","17":"tag-pilbara-news","18":"tag-wa-news","19":"tag-wa-road-toll"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114931725195499727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99761","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=99761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}