The six-year-old boy who was critically injured in a terror crash in Rockingham on Friday has tragically lost his fight for life.
The boy was trapped in a pile of four vehicles that passed at the intersection of Dixon and Mandurah Roads in East Rockingham around 3pm after three cars crashed into the back of a stopped Transperth bus. at traffic lights.
The boy is believed to have boarded a black Kia vehicle directly behind the bus, before another vehicle pulled him to the back, and crashed into the back of the bus.
Then another vehicle crashed into the wreckage.
Police confirmed Sunday morning that the six-year-old had died at Perth Children’s Hospital.
The crash occurred just minutes after St John WA sent out an emergency alert alert for ambulance delays.
On Friday at 2.45pm, about 15 minutes before the accident, St John asked potential patients not to call the triple 0 except in the event of a life-threatening emergency.
“Currently, about 22% of St John’s fleet in the metropolitan city of Perth is increased, the State Operations Center is receiving call volumes in excess of 40 calls per hour and we’re around 7% of waiting capacity, “the alert said. .
“There is likely to be a delay in an ambulance reaching people calling triple-0.”
It was the third time since early May that the service was forced to send the unprecedented emergency alert.
In a statement on Saturday, St John said his first teams attended the scene four minutes after receiving the triple-0 call.