{"id":135572,"date":"2025-08-10T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135572\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:53:09","slug":"driver-passengers-missing-after-allegedly-stolen-car-crashes-on-hobarts-bowen-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135572\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver, passengers missing after allegedly stolen car crashes on Hobart&#8217;s Bowen Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are searching for the driver and passengers of an allegedly stolen car that crashed on the Bowen Bridge in Hobart&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said witnesses stopped to help the people who were in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">However, the driver and passengers left the scene and were now &#8220;unaccounted for&#8221;, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The extent of their injuries is not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police boats and a rescue helicopter are involved in the search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier, the westbound lane of the bridge was closed, causing peak hour city traffic needing to cross the bridge to head further south to the Tasman Bridge, causing delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">About 9am police said the Bowen Bridge had fully reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are still investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for the driver and passengers of an allegedly stolen car that crashed on the Bowen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,81701,37173,2332,4903,50,47438],"class_list":{"0":"post-135572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bowen","10":"tag-bridge","11":"tag-car","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-stolen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115007167063013783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}