{"id":688730,"date":"2026-05-23T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688730\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:07:08","slug":"three-die-in-horrific-south-sydney-vehicle-crash-after-police-welfare-check-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688730\/","title":{"rendered":"Three die in \u2018horrific\u2019 south Sydney vehicle crash after police welfare check | Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three people have died in a crash in Sydney<\/a> after a man fled from police who had been attempting to carry out a welfare check.<\/p>\n

Police officers had been called to a property in Gymea Bay, southern Sydney, at 12.25am on Saturday. When they arrived, a 42-year-old man drove away in a white Audi, New South Wales<\/a> police said.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, police received reports that an Audi had rolled over a concrete barrier and landed on a blue Toyota sedan at Sans Souci, about 7km away.<\/p>\n

The man died at the scene, as did the driver and passenger of the Toyota, who are yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Graham Hibbs said police had been called to carry out a welfare check before the accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can really say at this stage is we were called for a concern for welfare, a mental health incident,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s all the detail I can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Police were not able to speak with the man before he fled. Officers believed the Audi was travelling at \u201cconsiderable speed\u201d when the crash occurred, Hibbs said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a horrific scene. We really feel for the families of all three persons and their loved ones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there were many cars on the road at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between 20 and 40 bystanders attempted to assist when one of the cars caught fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really feel for the families of all three persons who were involved in this incident and their loved ones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A crime scene has been established, and investigations are continuing into the crash circumstances, with drugs and alcohol a line of inquiry.<\/p>\n

It has been a deadly 24 hours on Australian roads after a 25-year-old woman and an infant died in a two-car crash near a popular holiday spot in Queensland.<\/p>\n

In a separate crash in Queensland, two girls, aged 13 and 14, suffered serious injuries after they were hit by a car while on a footpath in South Mackay.<\/p>\n

\u2013 with AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died in a crash in Sydney after a man fled from police who had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-688730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688730","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=688730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}