{"id":923465,"date":"2026-10-10T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:18:14","slug":"multiple-police-vehicles-attend-tollgate-motel-to-investigate-unexplained-infant-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923465\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple police vehicles attend Tollgate Motel to investigate unexplained infant death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">South Australian Police have attended the Tollgate Motel in Glen Osmond on Saturday morning to investigate a reported infant death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">ABC News understands police and ambulances were called to the Tollgate Motel, adjacent to the South Eastern Freeway, five kilometres south-east of the Adelaide CBD, from 9am.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Some witnesses estimated around 20 officers were present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long-range image of police vehicles sitting inside the Tollgate Motel undercroft\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f6d9e9678119d14b3ff4a54e27fbea2a.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police vehicles attended the scene throughout the morning. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;There were at least four or five police cars here,&#8221; a nearby resident told the ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a bit concerning that we&#8217;ve got police cars down the end of our quiet cul-de-sac.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police left the scene by mid-afternoon, after establishing a cordon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police tape surrounds a motel room with a green door and cream brick.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f6c3e960b3062bde99c975836a20e8f6.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police have cordoned off a room at the Tollgate Motel.\u00a0 (ABC News: Briana Fiore)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The cause of the child&#8217;s death is currently undetermined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have confirmed that an investigation is ongoing with the assistance of crime scene investigators and Eastern District Detectives, and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian Police have attended the Tollgate Motel in Glen Osmond on Saturday morning to investigate a reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3443,64,63,1300,120345,44,5326,372768,291587,491230],"class_list":["post-923465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-adelaide","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-death","tag-infant","tag-news","tag-sapol","tag-south-australian-police","tag-south-eastern-freeway","tag-tollgate-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923465","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=923465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}