{"id":73337,"date":"2025-08-16T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73337\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:08:11","slug":"sydney-harbour-bridge-closed-as-two-people-die-in-fall-at-western-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73337\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Harbour Bridge closed as two people die in fall at Western Distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two people have died in a fall in Sydney\u2019s CBD on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The man and woman, believed to be in their 40s, fell from the Western Distributor, near where it connects to the Sydney Harbour Bridge and onto Harbour St about 9.45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">They both died by the time emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-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 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two south bounds lanes from the Sydney Harbour Bridge are currently closed and traffic is being diverted to the Anzac Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cMotorists are asked to avoid the area,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d10a2274d1e7ff02ec1d105b5faab307004cf31e.jpg\" alt=\"Two man and woman were dead when emergency services arrived.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Two man and woman were dead when emergency services arrived. Credit: 7NEWS<a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/mobility-scooter-rider-fighting-for-life-at-marked-crossing-outside-orange-primary-school-in-the-nsw-central-tablelands-c-19700235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Pedestrian hit at marked crossing outside school fighting for life<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/arrests-after-teen-girl-stripped-whipped-and-beaten-at-knifepoint-in-sydneys-southwest-c-19699961\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Teen girl allegedly stripped and beaten while waiting for the bus<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died in a fall in Sydney\u2019s CBD on Saturday. The man and woman, believed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8984,43,44,5847,670,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-73337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-disaster-and-emergency","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-sydney","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73337","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=73337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}