Emergency services have located the body of a male passenger after a car submerged underwater at the Royal National Park in Sydney’s south.<\/p>\n
Authorities were called to Audley Weir in the park about 1:15am, following reports a car had gone into the water with two people inside.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old male driver was able to get out of the vehicle, but the passenger, believed to be in his early 20s, became trapped.<\/p>\n
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Emergency services were called to the weir about 1:15am Wednesday morning. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
A police dive squad was deployed and a blue car was retrieved just before 11am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Acting Inspector Steven Planinic from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command confirmed the man’s body was retrieved by police divers.<\/p>\n
He is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n
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The driver managed to escape the vehicle but his passenger became trapped. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Driver in custody<\/p>\n
“The driver of the vehicle \u2026 was subject to mandatory testing and has been released from hospital, where he is now in custody at Sutherland Police Station, taking part in a police interview,” Acting Inspector Planinic said.<\/p>\n
Police said a second vehicle was involved in the incident, and its driver, 18, was also speaking with investigators.<\/p>\n
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Roads have been closed as investigations continue. (ABC News: Simon Amery)<\/p>\n
“It does not appear at this early stage to be any contact between the two vehicles,” Acting Inspector Planinic said.<\/p>\n
He said one potential theory police were investigating was whether racing was involved.<\/p>\n
A mechanical examination of the blue vehicle was expected to take place, Acting Inspector Planinic said.<\/p>\n
NSW Police said there were initial delays to the multi-agency search due to low night-time visibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have located the body of a male passenger after a car submerged underwater at the Royal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[315627,5865,315626,165600,315630,43,315629,221582,44,274729,315624,315625,182874,41,39,42,40,315628],"class_list":["post-652564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audley-weir","tag-car","tag-car-submerges-in-weir","tag-crash-investigation-unit","tag-goarra","tag-headlines","tag-man-missing","tag-marine-area-command","tag-news","tag-royal-national-park","tag-search-for-man","tag-submerged","tag-sydney-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vehicle-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652564","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=652564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}