WA news LIVE: Swan View e-bike rider killed in bus collision

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Swan View e-bike rider killed in bus collision

To overnight news now and there’s been a tragic accident in Swan View where an e-bike rider has been killed following a collision with a Transperth bus.

The incident occurred on Morrison Road around 6.40pm.

The e-bike rider died in the crash.9 News Perth

The e-bike rider, a man in his 50s, was crushed in the crash and sadly died at the scene, despite a number of bystanders rushing to help.

Major Crash are now investigating the cause of the incident and have asked anyone with information or dashcam footage to come forward to police.

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, April 21.

Making headlines today, former football great Barry Cable has spent his first night at home since being acquitted of historical child sex offence charges yesterday.

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Cable, 82, had consistently denied the charges in a judge-alone criminal trial, which heard he had allegedly abused a girl aged about eight or nine at his family home in the 1960s.

Meanwhile, foreign airlines are already cancelling flights and reducing schedules to Australia, raising the prospect of more disruption if the fuel shock from the US-Israel war on Iran is not resolved by May.

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