A woman is dead, two men have head injuries and a second woman is trapped in her car (pictured) after a horror crash on the Sydney Harbour Bridge Picture: 9News

One dead, one critical after Sydney Harbor Bridge crash 


The Harbor Bridge has resumed after Sydney top hour traffic was brought to a stop by a fatal auto collision. 

One lady is dead, two men have head wounds and a subsequent lady is caught in her vehicle after a genuine accident that shut the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Thursday morning. 

A Mitsubishi Mirage voyaging north and a BMW voyaging south crashed at the Millers Point access to the extension not long before 7.15am with individuals from the two vehicles harmed in the accident. 

The female driver of the Mitsubishi kicked the bucket at the scene and her two travelers, the two men accepted to be in their 30s, endured head wounds. 

Both have been taken to Royal North Shore Hospital and one is accounted for to be in a genuine condition. 

The subsequent driver, a lady in her 40s, was caught in her BMW and was later taken to St Vincent's Hospital with extreme leg wounds. 

A male traveler accepted to be driving with her was taken to Royal North Shore medical clinic with minor wounds. 

The female driver of the Mitsubishi Mirage has died and her two male passengers have been taken to hospital with head injuries. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

"There was a red vehicle crushed, incredibly, in the front and I don't have a clue how them two - the dark vehicle and the red vehicle - got more than two distinct points. Be that as it may, it was a success," an observer told the Today Show. 

Emergency workers were forced to cut the roof off the car to extricate the woman. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

A lady is dead, two men have head wounds and a subsequent lady is caught in her vehicle (imagined) after a ghastliness crash on the Sydney Harbor Bridge Picture: 9News 

A lady is dead, two men have head wounds and a subsequent lady is caught in her vehicle (imagined) after a ghastliness crash on the Sydney Harbor Bridge Picture: 9NewsSource:Supplied 

Crisis laborers had to cut the rooftop off the vehicle to remove the lady. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi 

Crisis laborers had to cut the rooftop off the vehicle to remove the lady. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De MarchiSource:News Corp Australia 

The Bridge was shut for around three hours on Thursday morning, yet has since resumed. Drivers are encouraged to maintain a strategic distance from the zone as traffic is still "very overwhelming". 

Stunning film from the scene shows crisis laborers figuring out the broad destruction as pinnacle hour traffic is banked up for kilometers in the two ways. 

Overseer Lucky Phrachanh, obligation tasks chief at NSW Ambulance said the scene was horrendous". 

"Paramedics and crisis benefits never need to go to these kinds of mishaps," he said. 

"We state this constantly, however please pay special mind to one another on the streets. Driving any engine vehicle can be very risky." 

Drivers are urged to evade the zone, think about telecommuting or utilize the Harbor Tunnel rather, and transports going to the city are presently ending at North Sydney, with travelers urged to complete their excursion on the train. 

There is banked up traffic on Victoria Road, Burns Bay Road and on the Eastern Distributor. 

Transport highways 594, 389, 441, 442, 504 and M50 administrations are deferred as long as 20 minutes because of overwhelming traffic. 

Trains are as yet running on time over the extension, however travelers are approached to consider deferring their movement if conceivable to guarantee those on the train can socially remove. 

The female driver of the Mitsubishi Mirage has kicked the bucket and her two male travelers have been taken to clinic with head wounds. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi 

The female driver of the Mitsubishi Mirage has kicked the bucket and her two male travelers have been taken to emergency clinic with head wounds. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De MarchiSource:News Corp Australia 

The accident has shut the Bridge, causing mayhem for workers in top hour. Picture: ABC News 

The accident has shut the Bridge, causing disarray for workers in top hour. Picture: ABC NewsSource:ABC 

A salvage helicopter was acquired to help the casualties of the frightfulness crash, constraining the scaffold to totally close so it could land. It stays shut so crisis administrations can keep on clearing the scene. Picture: Twitter 

A salvage helicopter was gotten to help the survivors of the frightfulness crash, constraining the extension to totally close so it could land. It stays shut so crisis administrations can keep on clearing the scene. Picture: TwitterSource:Supplied 

Police Association NSW secretary Pat Gooley, who is stuck in the rush hour gridlock himself, disclosed to 2GB that drivers in the line expected to quit making U-goes to get themselves out of traffic. 

"What we do have is individuals doing U-turns, and we have crisis administrations attempting to advance on the opposite roadside," he said. 

The Sydney Harbour Bridge began to slowly reopen just after 9am, with cars filing slowly along one lane, past the crash scene towards the Cahill Expressway (pictured). Picture: Erin Lyons/ NCA NewsWire

"Individuals need to quit doing these U-turns, it's excessively perilous." 

A NSW Fire and Rescue representative told NCA NewsWire that three individuals were caught and their condition was obscure. 

"Fire and Rescue are working with all administrations to remove those individuals," he said.