Two dead after Audi involves in cop chase crashes and bursts into flames on M4 at Homebush, Sydney

Two men are dead after a car involved in a late night police pursuit crashed and burst into flames on a major motorway, causing traffic chaos for early morning commuters.

Highway patrol officers were patrolling Centenary Drive, Strathfield in Sydney‘s inner-west around 12.30am on Tuesday when they attempted to stop the driver of a silver Audi. 

Police initiated a pursuit when the driver failed to stop before the speeding Audi lost control and crashed on the southbound M4 on-ramp at Homebush.

The vehicle ploughed into an embankment and landed on its roof on the motorway.

Dramatic vision shows the upended vehicle engulfed in flames.

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Two people are dead after a silver Audi crashed and burst into flames on the M4 in Sydney following a pursuit with police

Police and passing motorists tried to pull the trapped occupants from the fiery wreckage but were unable to rescue them.

‘Their efforts were both and admirable and they went back a number of times despite the heat and the fire in an attempt to remove these persons from the vehicle,’ Acting Assistant Commissioner Adam Whyte told reporters.

Two bodies were found in the Audi after firefighters extinguished the blaze. They are yet to be formally identified.

Some of the witnesses at the scene were treated for shock by paramedics. 

A critical incident team will investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

The investigation will be subject to independent review. 

The tragedy prompted Assistant Commissioner Whyte to issue a desperate plea to speeding drivers.

‘If you are speeding and you are detected by the police it is far easier to stop and accept the consequences of your actions,’ he said. 

Police officers and passing motorists tried to pull the trapped occupants from the fiery wreckage but couldn’t

The crash has caused traffic chaos for early morning commuters on the M4.

One of three westbound lanes remains closed at Homebush Bay Drive six hours after the crash, along with both the north and southbound on-ramps.

‘There’s no access from Homebush Bay Dr to travel west on the motorway. Use an alternative route instead,’ Live Traffic Sydney tweeted.

Motorists travelling south on Homebush Bay Drive can continue on to Centenary Dr, exit at Marlborough Rd to get onto Parramatta Road and use the Silverwater Rd on-ramp to access the M4 westbound. 

Adding to the chaos, two out of three westbound lanes were closed on the M4 just past the M4 Tunnel due to a truck breakdown just after 6.30am.

One westbound lane on the M4 remains closed on Tuesday morning, causing traffic chaos