The woman killed in a horrific head-on car crash on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been identified as Dapto woman Nicole Green.
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The deadly crash, which caused traffic chaos and closed the bridge for several hours, also saw four other people injured and a complicated rescue for emergency services around 7am last Thursday.
Ms Green, aged 35, was driving a Mitsubishi Mirage when police believe she may have veered across two lanes of traffic into what she mistakenly believed was a northbound lane before colliding with a southbound black BMW near the entrance to the Sydney Harbour Bridge at Millers Point.
A woman, aged in her 40s, was trapped in her car for more than two hours. She was released after crews using hydraulic-powered tools to cut through the roof of the car.
Investigations into the cause of the crash are continuing.
One of Ms Green's friends, Erica Horne took to social media to offer her condolences.
"RIP Nicole Green. We love you baby girl xxxx," she said.
"[She] will be sadly missed."
Another woman Genelle Sel said, "Nicole Green daughter of William Charles Green was killed in a car accident on the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday. Granddaughter of William Stanley Green. May she RIP."
Ms Green had a troubled couple of years and several run-ins with the law.
She was set to stand trial later this year over her alleged theft of a $3000 Louis Vuitton handbag at Berkeley's Nan Tien Temple in August 2018.
Green allegedly grabbed a 62-year-old woman's designer brown leather handbag through the open front passenger door of a car while a male driver accelerated, causing the woman to fall to the ground, injuring her face.
In September 2019, Green pleaded guilty to robbery in company after helping her then criminal boyfriend rob a student of his car at taser-point outside the University of Wollongong.
Ms Green yelled out words of encouragement to her then-partner, Greg Merritt, as he approached the 21-year-old student on Robsons Road in Keiraville on December 11, 2018. Merritt zapped him with a stun gun and demanded he hand over the keys.
Following the crash on Thursday, two passengers in Ms Green's Mitsunishi Mirage - both men aged 21 and 23 - were taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
The younger man suffered head injuries while the older man was in a stable condition, NSW Ambulance said.
The trapped driver was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital with a fractured leg and spinal injuries. Her passenger, a 40-year-old man, was uninjured and taken to Royal North Shore Hospital as a precaution.
NSW Ambulance chief superintendent Cameron Edgar, who was on scene, said it was a difficult job given the location of the wrecks, which were strewn across multiple lanes.
"The lady (BMW driver) ... was conscious throughout. She was obviously concerned and in pain but she was, all things given, in reasonably good spirits," he told reporters.
NSW Ambulance duty operations manager Lucky Phrachanh said paramedics were shocked by what they saw.
"It was a horrific scene to encounter this morning ... paramedics and emergency services never want to attend these types of accidents," Mr Phrachanh said.
- with Australian Associated Press
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