00:02In just 24 hours, five people lost their lives on WA's roads.
00:08Two men were killed in separate crashes on Friday afternoon
00:11within minutes of each other in similar circumstances,
00:14their vehicles crashing into a tree.
00:17The first fatality was in Warreming near Boddington, south of Perth.
00:21Police say five minutes later, a 46-year-old man died in Cape Burnie in the Midwest.
00:26On Friday night, police say two vehicles collided
00:30at the intersection of Mills Road West on Tonkin Highway.
00:33A 30-year-old female passenger in the utility was taken to Royal Perth Hospital but later died.
00:39The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured
00:42while the 38-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was also taken to hospital.
00:47In WA's North on Saturday morning, police say two more people died
00:52in a head-on collision near the intersection of DeWitt Road
00:54on the north-west coastal highway near Karratha.
00:58Police say one vehicle caught fire and the driver of the second vehicle
01:02was taken to hospital with critical injuries.
01:04Earlier this month, road safety advocate RAC warned
01:08the state's yearly road toll could climb to more than 200 deaths
01:12for the first time in almost two decades.
01:16The WA government says while it's committed to continually improving road safety,
01:21motorists must play their part.
01:23We will do what we can in terms of infrastructure,
01:26in terms of public messaging,
01:28making sure people are accountable when they do break the rules,
01:32but we also need the public to get on board.
01:35Witnesses or anyone with footage of the crashes
01:37have been urged to contact police.
01:39In the, in
01:39police say nothing,
01:42police say nothing.
01:44You
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