One woman is dead, two men have head injuries and a second woman is trapped in her car after a serious crash that closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Thursday morning.
A Mitsubishi Mirage travelling north and a BMW travelling south collided at the Millers Point entrance to the bridge just before 7.15am with people from both cars injured in the crash.
The female driver of the Mitsubishi died at the scene and her two passengers, both men believed to be in their 30s, suffered head injuries.
Both have been taken to Royal North Shore Hospital and one is reported to be in a serious condition.
The second driver, a woman in her 40s, was trapped in her BMW and was later taken to St Vincent’s Hospital with severe leg injuries.
A male passenger believed to be driving with her was taken to Royal North Shore hospital with minor injuries.
“There was a red car smashed, unbelievably, in the front and I don't know how both of them - the black car and the red car - got over two different angles. But it was a big hit,” a witness told the Today Show.
The Bridge was closed in both directions to allow a rescue helicopter to land and remains closed, apart from two southbound lanes leading to the Cahill Expressway.
Passing cars are blocked from seeing the crash scene by a line of fire trucks and are moving slowly in what appears to be an attempt to start clearing the standstill traffic.
Shocking footage from the scene shows emergency workers sorting through the widespread wreckage as peak hour traffic is banked up for kilometres in both directions.
Inspector Lucky Phrachanh, duty operations manager at NSW Ambulance said the scene was horrific”.
“Paramedics and emergency services never want to attend these types of accidents,” he said.
“We say this all the time, but please look out for each other on the roads. Driving any motor vehicle can be extremely dangerous.”
Drivers are encouraged to avoid the area, consider working from home or use the Harbour Tunnel instead, and buses heading to the city are now terminating at North Sydney, with passengers encouraged to finish their journey on the train.
There is banked up traffic on Victoria Road, Burns Bay Road and on the Eastern Distributor.
Bus routes 594, 389, 441, 442, 504 and M50 services are delayed up to 20 minutes due to heavy traffic.
Trains are still running on schedule across the bridge, but passengers are asked to consider delaying their travel if possible to ensure those on the train can socially distance.
Police Association NSW secretary Pat Gooley, who is stuck in the traffic himself, told 2GB that drivers in the queue needed to stop making U-turns to get themselves out of traffic.
“What we do have is people doing U-turns, and we have emergency services trying to make their way on the other side of the road,” he said.
“People have to stop doing these U-turns, it's too dangerous.”
A NSW Fire and Rescue spokesperson told NCA NewsWire that three people were trapped and their condition was unknown.
“Fire and Rescue are working with all services to extricate those people,” he said.
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