The pile-up stage on Riverside Drive. <i>Photo: Michele Gelle, via Twitter.</i>

The crash stage on Riverside Drive. Photo: Michele Gelle, via Twitter.

Two tighten friends are dead after their Holden Commodore crushed into a palm tree, ripping in two and ripping into abandon in Perth early this morning.

The men, elderly twenty and 19, were killed when the VE Commodore collided with the tree on Riverside Drive in Perth’s CBD about 1am.

The 20-year-old driver from Muresk about 100km easterly of Perth, was incinerated in his seat.

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The pile-up stage on Riverside Drive. <i>Photo: Michele Gelle, via Twitter.</i>

The crash stage on Riverside Drive. Photo: Michele Gelle, via Twitter.

His 19-year-old friend from Northam, also to Perth’s east, was thrown from the automobile in the collision, and died at the scene.

Parts of the automobile and waste from side the automobile were found up to 100 metres from the crash site after the Commodore was ripped in half.

Acting Sergeant Allan Mawdesley told the ABC he had no disbelief tall speed was a cause in the crash, which occurred in a 60km/h zone.

The pile-up stage on Riverside Drive. <i>Photo: Michele Gelle, via Twitter.</i>

The crash stage on Riverside Drive. Photo: Michele Gelle, via Twitter.

“We need to demeanour at a number of things, patently speed is a factor, either ethanol may have been a cause in this crash,” he said.

“It’s a tragedy this tighten to Christmas.”

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan pronounced the crash was a single of the misfortune he had seen in his time in the police force.

He pronounced the driver contingency have been travelling at an “extremely tall speed” and believed ethanol or drug would be found to be a factor.

He pronounced whilst police all the time focused on shortening the State’s road toll through highway reserve campaigns, it was unfit to stop fatalities when reckless, dangerous driving was involved.

“There is no highway reserve debate that can stop people driving designedly dangerously I don’t think,” he said.

Police can go out there and they can make the law though if someone wants to get in a automobile and designedly expostulate it dangerously in the early hours of the morning, substantially underneath the change of ethanol and or something else, you are starting to see tragedies of this inlet occur.

“You will never be able to stop the occasional person who wants to go out and expostulate in a designedly dangerous manner.

“And this is the arrange of tragedy you see when this happens.”

The span were believed to have been travelling easterly along Riverside Drive when the automobile strike the median frame and crushed into a palm tree.

Police who attended the crash have been offering counselling, with a single military military officer describing the stage to 6PR Radio as the misfortune he had ever seen.

The side row of the automobile lay near the side of the highway for multiform hours this morning, metres from the wreckage.

There were no movement outlines on the highway in the lead-up to the crash site, and military do not hold another automobile was involved.

Police Minister Rob Johnson pronounced the collision was devastating.

“There’s starting to be two dull chairs around both those families’ tables on Yuletide day,” he said.

“Unfortunately these two immature blokes contingency have been travelling at an intensely tall speed. So you can have the many appropriate roads in the world, an huge number of officers out there safeguarding people… though at the end of the day it is the drivers‘ responsibility.

“It’s harmful for me as Police Minister, and I’m sure for many people in Western Australia to see two immature lives unexpected snuffed out since of insane driving.”

Major crash officers sealed the highway for multiform hours, reopening the west and eastward lanes about 8.30am.

Police are delectable for any witnesses to the crash to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

- with Rhianna King

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Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan pronounced the crash was a single of the misfortune he had seen in his time in the military force.

He pronounced the driver contingency have been travelling at an “extremely tall speed” and believed ethanol or drug would be found to be a factor.

He pronounced whilst military all the time focused on shortening the State’s highway fee through highway reserve campaigns, it was unfit to stop fatalities when reckless, dangerous pushing was involved.

“There is no highway reserve debate that can stop people pushing designedly dangerously I don’t think. Police can go out there and they can make the law though if someone wants to get in a automobile and designedly expostulate it dangerously in the early hours of the morning, substantially underneath the change of ethanol and or something else, you are starting to see tragedies of this inlet occur,” he said.“You will never be able to stop the occasional person who wants to go out and expostulate in a designedly dangerous manner,” he said.

“And this is the arrange of tragedy you see when this happens.”

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