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.

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.

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

A 61-year-old passenger who was critically hurt in a bus crash in Wanneroo in Perth's northern suburbs dies from his injuries.

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.