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Four-Year-Old Dies After Canning Vale Crash

A large public fundraising effort is covering funeral and short-term costs as investigators appeal for witnesses.

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.