{"id":581351,"date":"2026-04-02T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:07:15","slug":"woman-hit-by-bus-and-killed-retrieving-personal-item-in-adelaide-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581351\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman hit by bus and killed \u2018retrieving personal item\u2019 in Adelaide CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A woman has died after she was struck by a bus in the heart of <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/sa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adelaide<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Emergency services were called to the intersection of King William Road and Victoria Drive about 5pm following reports a pedestrian had been hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The 39\u2011year\u2011old North Adelaide woman died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Major Crash officers examined the area, forcing the closure of King William Road between North Terrace and War Memorial Drive, as well as Victoria Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police believe the woman was retrieving a personal item from the road when she was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">All roads were reopened about 10pm on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police are urging anyone who witnessed the crash \u2014 or drivers with dashcam footage from the area \u2014 to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Her death marks the 30th life lost on South Australian roads so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/how-7news-melbourne-chief-crime-reporter-cassie-zervos-broke-dezi-freemans-death-while-on-maternity-leave-c-22085944\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>How Cassie Zervos broke the news of Dezi Freeman\u2019s death on maternity leave<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/three-teens-charged-two-released-as-police-hunt-more-youths-linked-to-brisbane-and-gold-coast-crime-spree-c-22085533\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Teens charged over alleged horrifying home invasions<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died after she was struck by a bus in the heart of Adelaide on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3443,43,44,22122,10174,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-581351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sa-news","12":"tag-sa-police","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}