Rottnest Police responded to an incident that occurred on Rottnest Island on Tuesday, 7 April 2026.
About 5.00pm, emergency services received a report that an overseas tourist had fallen from a bicycle on Digby Drive in the Thompson Bay area.
Police and Rottnest Island Nursing Post staff attended and located a 38-year-old woman who had sustained serious, life-threatening head injuries.
The woman was flown from the island by RAC Rescue helicopter to Royal Perth Hospital in a critical condition.
The circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation.
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