Baby killed in a car rollover in WA

A six-week-old baby girl has died after she was flung from a car that crashed near Broome in Western Australia.

The car rolled on Great Northern Highway, 130km south of Broome, on Saturday afternoon.

A passing motorist drove the injured baby towards Broome to meet an ambulance that took her to Broome Hospital, where she died overnight.

There was no word on the driver and anyone else in the crashed car.