Perth airport shuttle bus crash: Teen dead after 'horrific' high-speed impact
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A teenager is dead after the car he was in smashed into an airport shuttle bus, which is believed to have occurred after a police pursuit through Perth on Saturday night.
Shortly after 10:00pm a silver sedan crashed into a bus, which is believed to have just dropped off passengers to the Perth Airport, at the intersection of Abernethy Road and Kewdale Road in Kewdale.
The bus was knocked onto its side from the impact.
A 16-year-old passenger of the sedan was killed in the crash.
The 19-year-old sedan driver was injured, as was the 46-year-old driver of the bus. Both were taken to Royal Perth Hospital, where they remained on Sunday morning in a stable condition.
Police are investigating whether the silver sedan was involved in a police pursuit earlier in the night, in the Belmont area.
Internal Affairs and the Major Crash squad will investigate the circumstances leading up to the crash, a statement from WA Police said.
'It was just a wreck, a crumpled wreck'
Donnybrook grocery manager Daniel Wiseman, 41, said he felt "sick in the guts" after driving past the crash scene.
"It was a pretty horrific scene ... it was hard to tell what sort of car had been in the impact, it looked like there would be no survivors from it," he said.
"It was just horrible, it just made me feel sick."
Mr Wiseman said the car was at least 60 to 70 metres away from the bus.
He said he was relieved to find out the bus did not have any passengers on board at the time of the crash.
"It was unrecognisable, I spoke to one of my family members this morning and I said I couldn't even tell you what make it was ... it was just a wreck, a crumpled wreck.
"You feel sick in the stomach knowing that someone's probably died there, I mean that's a road that we use a fair bit.
"The passengers on the bus, if there was 20 or 30 of them (that) had been there earlier, it just could have been really, really bad, and a lot worse than what it has turned out to be."
Major crash investigators have asked any witnesses who may have seen either the silver sedan or the shuttle bus on Abernethy Road or Kewdale Road prior to the crash to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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