Perth man dies after e-bike collides with school bus
A 37-year-old man has died after being hit by what is believed to be a school bus while riding an electric bike in Perth’s southern suburbs on Thursday afternoon.
About 3.30pm, an “orange bus” and the black bicycle collided near the roundabout at the intersection of Tunnicliffe Street and Parmelia Avenue in Parmelia.
The rider of the e-bike was rushed to Rockingham Hospital for treatment, where he later died from injuries sustained in the crash.
The occupants of the bus, including the 59-year-old female driver, were not injured.
And in a separate incident in Hopeland around 8.30pm, a silver Mazda 3 sedan and a green Holden Commodore sedan were involved in a collision at the intersection of Hopeland Road and Karnup Road.
Across the nation and around the world
Here’s what’s making headlines today:
- Inflation is likely to hit 5 per cent by the middle of the year and could soar to 7 per cent by Christmas if the war against Iran pushes oil to $US200 a barrel, with Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget to confirm Australians will face ongoing price pressures.
- Countries worldwide scrambled on Thursday to trace more than two dozen people who had left the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak before it got marooned off the coast of Cape Verde, in an effort to prevent further spread of the disease.
- Weird fumes, fires and machinery operating late at night have been reported by dozens of residents near a troubled scrapyard at the centre of claims that Australia’s biggest battery recycler is burning or dumping millions of batteries instead of recycling them.
- The US military confirmed it struck Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz in what it said was an act of self-defence following Iranian aggression against American ships.
- Wall Street fell from its records amid rising uncertainty over a peace deal being reached in the Middle East while oil prices jumped this morning after tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz.
Today’s weather
Good morning WA
Good morning all, and welcome to the last live blog for the week.
Making headlined today, a legal fight involving a family-owned high-end Claremont jeweller has spilled into WA’s Supreme Court, with accusations the daughter-in-law of the boutique store’s owner stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company.
Legal documents published by the Supreme Court of WA lay bare the civil proceedings against Rebecca Luetke-Brinkhaus, the partner of Karl Brinkhaus and daughter-in-law of Brinkhaus Jewellers founder Doris Brinkhaus.
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