Overview
- The collision at the intersection of Garden Street and Boardman Road in Canning Vale involved a Holden Astra and a Ford Mustang and critically injured four-year-old Layna Leavy, who later died.
- Layna’s mother, Saoirse Wynne, and her brother sustained minor injuries and Layna was taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital where she could not be saved.
- A GoFundMe set up for the Leavy family has raised about $50,000–$53,000 in days to pay for funeral and memorial costs and to ease short-term lost income.
- The family, Irish expatriates who moved to Perth in June 2024, have posted messages of thanks while roadside tributes have appeared at the crash site.
- The crash that struck Canning Vale on June 3 has prompted a Major Crash appeal for witnesses and no further investigatory or legal updates have been reported so far.