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Topic:Road Accidents and Incidents

The crash left wreckage of the vehicles, including a white ute, strewn across the Mitchell Freeway. (Supplied)

A man driving a ute the wrong way down Perth's Mitchell Freeway crashed into two hatchbacks late on Sunday night, killing a 56-year-old woman driving one of the cars.

The man, 24, was critically hurt and died in hospital, while two people in the other hatchback suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Police are urging anyone with footage or information to contact them after the crash — the second fatal head-on collision along the same stretch of freeway in four months.

Link copiedShareShare articleA 56-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man are dead after a head-on collision on the Mitchell Freeway in the northern Perth suburb of Butler.

Police said the man was driving a white utility southbound on the wrong side of the freeway last night, when he collided with two hatchbacks near the Lukin Drive exit about 11:25pm.

The woman, who was driving one of the hatchbacks, died at the scene. 

The man was taken to Joondalup Health Campus with critical injuries but later died.

The crash happened near the Lukin Dr interchange (pictured from above). (Supplied: Nearmap)

Two people in the other hatchback sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Parts of Mitchell Freeway were closed for several hours while the road was cleared.

Major Crash investigators have been examining the scene and have appealed for anyone with footage or information to contact Crime Stoppers.

The collision comes four months after another fatal head-on crash along the same stretch of the Mitchell Freeway, which opened in 2023.

Johnny Gray, 60, died when he drove his pink 1956 Chevrolet the wrong way down the freeway off-ramp at its terminus at Romeo Road.

Police Minister Reece Whitby described Mr Gray's death as a "shocking tragedy" and said Main Roads would conduct its own safety investigation.

"We do know that he was on the wrong side of the road in terms of the area where he met oncoming traffic," Mr Whitby said at the time.

Johnny Gray died in a crash in October after driving his pink Chevrolet the wrong way down a freeway off-ramp. (GoFundMe)

"How he happened to be there, why it happened, is a subject of a police investigation, and Main Roads are obviously aware of the issue and will be doing their own investigation."

"If there's any lessons that are to be learned, they'll follow those up."

The driver of the car that was hit travelling on the correct side of the road only sustained minor injuries.

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