Arabic version: خمس وفيات ترفع حصيلة قتلى الطرق في أستراليا الغربية إلى 186
According to ABC News, five people were killed in traffic accidents across Western Australia over 48 hours, lifting the state’s road toll to 186 deaths so far in 2026. The total has already exceeded the 184 fatalities recorded across all of 2025, with more than a month remaining in the year. WA is on track to record its worst road toll in a decade.
Three young people died on Friday morning when their Ford Falcon collided with trees near Narrogin, 192 kilometres south-east of Perth. The victims were a 21-year-old man, a 22-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man. Shire president Leigh Ballard called the deaths a “terrible tragedy for the town” and urged motorists to slow down and drive safely.
On Friday evening, two motorcycles collided on Mandurah Road in Dudley Park. The 35-year-old rider of a Kawasaki motorcycle died at the scene, while the rider of a Triumph motorcycle suffered non-life-threatening injuries. A fifth death involved a 41-year-old man driving a Toyota Landcruiser on Donnybrook-Boyup Brook Road when the vehicle hit a tree.
Opposition road safety spokesperson Julie Freeman said the milestone should ring “alarm bells” in government. She called for safety treatments to be extended across an 8,000-kilometre network of local government roads. The state government said it is investing $3.6 billion in regional roads over four years and has committed $125 million over five years to expand the Regional Road Safety Program to local roads.
Government minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said more than a billion dollars had been spent on road safety over the past decade, including AI cameras and education programs, but drivers also needed to change their behaviour. Traffic is significantly higher on country roads across southern WA during harvest, with roads expected to become busier as the summer holidays approach.
