A damaged car is towed from the scene on Joondalup Drive on Monday.
Camera IconA damaged car is towed from the scene on Joondalup Drive on Monday. Credit: Supplied/Supplied, Mark Donaldson

Three crashes in northern suburbs on Monday in bad weather

Mark DonaldsonJoondalup Times

THREE people were hospitalised after three crashes on local roads within five hours in bad weather conditions on Monday.

Emergency services were first called to a crash in Kingsley where a vehicle carrying an 88-year-old man and 81-year-old woman hit a tree on Goollelal Drive about 12.30pm.

Police said both occupants were taken to Royal Perth Hospital with injuries not believed to be serious.

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About 4.30pm, a car carrying a 51-year-old mother and her 14-year-old son struck a tree and landed on its side on Flinders Avenue in Hillarys.

Police said fire and ambulance crews were advised, but the pair was lucky to escape injury.

Officers then attended a two-car collision on Joondalup Drive near Aston Street in Joondalup about 5.30pm.

A man in his 50s suffered minor injuries and was taken to Joondalup Health Campus.

Both vehicles were severely damaged in the crash.

Yesterday, emergency services were needed at a multiple car crash at the intersection of Joondalup Drive and Collier Pass.

Police, fire crews and paramedics had blocked off a portion of Joondalup Drive just after 10am as they attended to those involved.