A 52-year-old man has died after being struck by a car in the Perth suburb of Bayswater in what police are calling a traumatic incident for all involved. Police say the driver was seen acting erratically in the lead up to the incident and had two young children in the car.
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00:00A series of events, ending on a main road in Bayswater.
00:07Police were called at about 11am.
00:10They say a silver Commodore struck a 52-year-old pedestrian on Rose Avenue.
00:15He later died in hospital.
00:17A man in his 30s is in custody.
00:20Police arrived shortly after and rendered immediate first aid to the injured man and
00:25apprehended the driver of the vehicle.
00:27Police say the two kids in the car during the incident were unharmed.
00:31While we're working to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident, it's
00:35believed the driver of the silver Commodore was seen acting erratically in the area, potentially
00:40armed with a knife.
00:42Bayswater resident Wayne Small says the same vehicle crashed into a parked car opposite
00:47his house moments earlier.
00:49The guy in the silver Commodore, he got out with a machete and started threatening the
00:55guy.
00:56The driver of the ute stayed in the car during the alleged attack.
01:00Nearby workers also reported being threatened.
01:03The knife was that much bigger.
01:07Yeah, it's like, we were scared when we saw him.
01:10He's taken off towards the station and I could tell by the state of the car he wasn't going
01:14to get far.
01:15It was a real mess.
01:16Police say they're still trying to piece together the sequence of events.