A TAXI driver and an English tourist who had just arrived in WA are dead after a stolen 4WD under police surveillence slammed into their vehicle.
The stolen four-wheel-drive ploughed into the taxi just before 2am at the intersection of Orrong Road and Leach Highway on the border of Kewdale and Welshpool.
Police revealed the taxi passenger, a 36-year-old British tourist, had just arrived on a flight into Perth and was making his way into the city. He would have only been in WA for little more than an hour.
The 4WD was allegedly being driven at high speed and was being "monitored'' by a police helicopter directly overhead. Debris was strewn over a large stretch of the road.
The 28-year-old male taxi driver and the British tourist died at the scene.
An earlier police chase, around midnight, had been abandoned when the stolen 4WD was allegedly being driven without lights.