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The state’s Traffic Safety Commission recently announced that 745 people were killed in crashes last year.
As at June 2021, it manages 18,695 kilometres (11,617 mi) of roads, representing the arterial road network in Western Australia. [3] Each of the roads must be declared a "public highway" or "main road" in the Western Australian Government Gazette and is allocated a highway or main road number – many roads perceived as main roads by the public ...
Road accident Merredin, Western Australia 10 1982 Sep 18 Ten people died (one adult, nine children) and 8 injured (four seriously) returning from a football trip to Perth when their bus crashed into a tree. [237] Air accident: Near Leonora, Western Australia: 10: 1988 Dec 16: Mitsubishi MU-2 accident [238] Road accident: Wangaratta, Victoria ...
Highways in Western Australia include both roads that are named as a highway, and roads that have been declared as a highway under the Main Roads Act 1930. The standard of highways range from two-lane roads, common in rural areas, to controlled access, grade separated freeways in Perth. In legislation, a highway is a type of road controlled and ...
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Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie.A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link between Perth and the eastern states of Australia.
The road to Mowich Lake was completed in 1933. [11] In 1937, State Road 5 was renamed Primary State Highway 5, and what is now SR 165 was the Enumclaw-Fairfax branch of that highway (except between Enumclaw and Buckley, which is now SR 410). The road to Mowich lake was completed in 1933, but remained closed to vehicular traffic until 1955. [15]