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Top ten riskiest intersections and roads in Perth and WA revealed by RAC’s 2024/25 Risky Roads survey

RAC’s 2024/25 Risky Roads survey ranks Baldivis Road and Kulija Road as the riskiest metro intersection and Mitchell Freeway as the riskiest metro road. Full top-ten lists for Perth and regional WA, and what the rankings do and do not measure.
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RAC’s 2024/25 Risky Roads survey, released on 11 February 2025, ranks Baldivis Road and Kulija Road in Baldivis as the riskiest metropolitan intersection and Mitchell Freeway in West Perth as the riskiest metropolitan road. In regional Western Australia, the intersection of Albany Highway and South Coast Highway at the Chester Pass roundabout in Albany ranked first, and Great Northern Highway, covering Pithara to Wubin and Newman to Port Hedland, topped the regional roads list.

These lists rank locations that West Australians nominated as dangerous. They are not counts of crashes, so they show where people are concerned, not where the most collisions happen. The sections below set out the four full rankings, what nominators said about them, and how to read them.

What the survey measures

RAC asked Western Australians which locations they believed were most dangerous, then used the responses to advocate for road improvements. Each ranking is therefore an ordering of nominations and perceptions. It is not a statistical analysis of crash frequency, exposure-adjusted risk, or an engineering audit of any site.

Two survey figures describe the response. RAC received more than 18,000 nominations. Over 50 per cent of respondents said they had been involved in or witnessed a crash or near-miss at the location they nominated. Both figures come from RAC’s survey respondents; they do not describe the general population or traffic volumes at each site.

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RAC’s General Manager External Relations, Will Golsby, said: “RAC’s Risky Roads Survey is the largest survey of its kind and this year we received the highest number of nominations on record from thousands of Western Australians.” “Largest survey of its kind” is RAC’s own characterisation and has not been independently verified.

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Each list is labelled by geography and location type. Ranks within each list follow RAC’s published order. The full results are on RAC’s Risky Roads results page.

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Metropolitan intersections

Rank Intersection Suburb
1 Baldivis Road & Kulija Road Baldivis
2 Canning Highway, Rome Road & Hislop Road Melville
3 Armadale Road & Eighth Road Armadale
4 Anstey Road & Mandurah Road Secret Harbour
5 Garden Street & Nicholson Road Canning Vale/Thornlie
6 Great Eastern Highway & Scott Street Greenmount
7 Clayton Street & Military Road Bellevue/Midland
8 Lewis Road & Welshpool Road E Wattle Grove
9 Marmion Avenue & Seacrest Drive Sorrento
10 Karrinyup Road & Muir Street Innaloo

Metropolitan roads

Rank Road Section
1 Mitchell Freeway West Perth
2 Archer Street Carlisle
3 Guildford Road Mt Lawley to Bayswater
4 Kwinana Freeway Como
5 Mason Road Kwinana Beach
6 Hampton Road Beaconsfield
7 Rowley Road Banjup to Hilbert
8 Farrington Road North Lake to Murdoch
9 Neaves Road Banksia Grove to Bullsbrook
10 Hopeland Road Hopeland to Nambeelup

Regional intersections

Rank Intersection Location
1 Albany Highway & South Coast Highway (Chester Pass roundabout) Lockyer/Orana/Mt Melville, Albany
2 Nancarrow Way & Pinjarra Road Ravenswood
3 Bussell Highway & Tuart Drive Yalyalup
4 South Coast Highway & Strickland Street Denmark
5 Bussell Highway & Memorial Drive Cowaramup
6 Bussell Highway & West Street Busselton
7 Forrest Highway & Lake Clifton Road Waroona
8 Caves Road & Wallcliffe Road Margaret River
9 Bussell Highway & Vasse Highway Bovell/Yalyalup
10 Dodson Road & South Western Highway Glen Iris

Regional roads

Rank Road Section
1 Great Northern Highway Pithara to Wubin and Newman to Port Hedland
2 Great Eastern Highway The Lakes to Coolgardie
3 South Western Highway Boyanup to Walpole
4 Bussell Highway Cowaramup
5 Indian Ocean Drive Yanchep to Arrowsmith
6 Albany Highway Armadale to Albany
7 South Coast Highway Albany to Esperance
8 Denmark–Mount Barker Road Denmark to Mt Barker
9 (shared) Caves Road Busselton to Yallingup
9 (shared) Great Southern Highway The Lakes to Brookton
10 Geraldton–Mt Magnet Road Geraldton to Mullewa

RAC lists Caves Road and Great Southern Highway together at position nine, so neither is given a separate ordinal rank here.

What nominators said

RAC’s results summarise the reasons nominators gave. These are concerns reported by respondents, not verified engineering findings.

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  • Mitchell Freeway, West Perth: little chance to turn or cross traffic, a confusing layout, and no overtaking opportunities.
  • Great Northern Highway: poor road surface quality, no overtaking opportunities, and narrow lanes.

How the rankings have moved

RAC says Baldivis Road and Kulija Road rose from sixth place in 2022 to first in 2024/25. The full results PDF also marks Marmion Avenue and Seacrest Drive, and Anstey Road and Mandurah Road, as locations that appeared in the 2022 summary. According to the release, the Albany Highway and South Coast Highway regional intersection has topped its list for the third time running.

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Crash data at the top-ranked intersection

A Western Australian parliamentary answer dated 12 August 2025 (Question on Notice No. 230) reported nil serious crashes and nil fatal crashes at or near Baldivis Road and Kulija Road in 2024. That covers one location in one year. It does not explain why respondents nominated the site, and it does not invalidate the survey. It does show why a high survey rank and a crash record should be read separately.

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How to use these lists

  • Read a listed location as one that drew many nominations and specific complaints, not as a verified hazard ranking.
  • Compare places within the same list. The four lists are separate and their ranks are not directly comparable with each other.
  • For crash history at a specific site, check official crash records for that location and year rather than relying on the survey.
  • This article covers the 2024/25 edition, released on 11 February 2025, as shown in RAC’s media release. Check RAC’s results page for any later edition, since its rankings will differ.
  • At intersections nominators flagged, allow extra time for turning and crossing, and be prepared for confusing layouts. At highway sections flagged for no overtaking opportunities or narrow lanes, plan passing carefully.

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