{"id":916935,"date":"2026-10-05T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916935\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:56:15","slug":"two-men-killed-walking-along-road-north-of-merimbula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916935\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men killed walking along road north of Merimbula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-809958\" class=\"wp-image-809958 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2024-09-18-Police-stock-photos-1-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Police tape\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-809958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Specialist police are assisting with the investigation into the two pedestrian\u2019s deaths. Photo: Michelle Kroll.<\/p>\n<p>Two men have been killed after being struck by an SUV while walking along a road at Tura Beach, north of Merimbula.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called at about 9:30 pm on Sunday (4 October) to Pacific Way where they found two pedestrians had been hit by a white Nissan Dualis SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrians \u2013 two men aged 70 and 55 \u2013 died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged driver of the SUV, a 45-year-old woman, was uninjured and taken to South East Regional Hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n<p>A crime scene has been set up and investigations are underway.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash, or has relevant dashcam or mobile phone footage, has been asked to contact Bega Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p>Original Article published by Claire Fenwicke on <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutregional.com.au\/two-men-killed-walking-along-road-north-of-merimbula\/516809\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">About Regional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"google-preferred-source\"><a data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"google-preferred-source\" data-label=\"a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=region.com.au\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Make us preferred on Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist police are assisting with the investigation into the two pedestrian\u2019s deaths. Photo: Michelle Kroll. Two men have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-916935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916935","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=916935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}