Horrific crash kills three in head-on collision along fatal stretch of WA road
An horrific crash on one of WA's most dangerous roads has killed three people, including a mother and her six-year-old son.
The third person killed in the head-on collision was an 83-year-old man.
Police say two cars collided just after 7am Thursday morning when one driver crossed the double white lines on Indian Ocean Drive, around 110 kms north of Perth near Ledge Point.
It was a split-second decision that would destroy three lives.
The two cars involved in the collison were left barely recognisable.
"It's a catastrophic crash and it's taking time for our staff to be able to process it properly, to identify exactly what's occurred," WA Police Inspector Jade Smith said.
Witnesses have told Seven News the man driving the blue sedan was travelling south and crossed the white lines, ploughing into the mother and son in the ute, who were travelling north.
There was nothing that emergency crews could do other than place a tarpaulin over the crumpled wreckage.
The speed limit along this stretch of road is 100km/h.
The crash happened at a notorious bend in the road on the crest of a hill.
Police say it is remarkable that no-one else was caught up in the crash.
Indian Ocean Drive has become one of the state's most dangerous roads, which is used by more than 2000 cars every day.
Between 2012 and 2016 there were two fatalities, but in the first eight months of 2017 there have already been six deaths on this road.
An elderly man died in March after a crash north of Lancelin.
On the WA Day long weekend a Singaporean man died in a crash south of Ledge Point.
Two weeks ago a 49-year-old man from Innaloo was killed near Leeman.
Locals say they are “sick and tired” of learning about fatalities on Indian Ocean Drive.
“I'm really sick and tired of seeing incident after incident and having to wake up, check Facebook and hope that it isn't someone in my area that has passed away,” Connor Hicks told Seven News Perth.
