Rooney Taua died on what should have been an ordinary commute to work on Thursday morning.

Beloved husband and devoted father, Rooney Taua, was the 61-year-old man killed in the horror bus crash in Perth’s north on Thursday.

A woman suffers critical injuries and six other passengers are hurt as a Transperth bus crashes into a tree in Perth's north on Thursday morning.

Police have issued a grim update after a bus veered onto the wrong side of the road and crashed into a tree.

Rooney Taua, 61, suffered critical injuries when the Transperth bus he was a passenger on slammed into a tree on Joondalup Dr, in the northern Perth suburb of Wanneroo, just after 11am on Thursday.