Elderly woman dies in crash near rural WA town
An 85-year-old woman has died in a car crash in a rural town near York, around 116 kilometres east of Perth on Thursday afternoon.
About 3.10pm, a silver Ford Fairlane sedan was travelling east along Quairading York Road when, in Beverley East, it left the road and struck a tree.
The driver and sole occupant, an 85-year-old woman, sustained critical injuries in the crash and died at the scene.
Major Crash investigators are urging anyone who saw the crash, or the silver Ford Fairlane sedan travelling in the area before the crash, to contact Crime Stoppers.
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Making headlines, a Perth real estate agency has cited the unfolding fuel crisis as a reason for requesting tenants conduct their own property inspections, in what Western Australia’s consumer watchdog has flagged as a potential breach of consumer law.
Davey Real Estate wrote to tenants last month advising them they would need to conduct their own routine inspections.
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