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Police believe an officer involved in a pursuit in which a man died in Sydney's south this morning acted "within the guidelines".

Commuters experienced significant delays after the 19-year-old man died in a ute crash following the police chase on Alfords Point Road in Menai.

The incident closed the highway in both directions for about nine hours after the crash near Old Illawarra Road just after 6am.

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Assistant Commissioner Tony Cooke said the Oyster Bay man died at the scene.

"Having viewed the in-car video footage, it is clear there is a very short pursuit and the officer has acted within the guidelines and circumstances," Cooke said.

He said the incident began when officers noted the man was over the speed limit and attempted to stop the car by activating their lights.

"The vehicle did pull over, it came to a stop but as the officer began to get out of the vehicle, the offending vehicle … drove away at speed.

"The officer followed that vehicle and commenced a pursuit for a very short distance."

He said the ute travelled onto Alfords Point Road, where it attempted to merge from lane one to three but instead came into contact with the guard rail and another white ute.

The driver of the other ute was hospitalised for minor injuries.

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission is independently investigating the incident.

The worst of the traffic was built up on Alfords Point Bridge between Henry Lawson Drive at Padstow and Menai Road.

9News spoke to one woman who decided to ditch her car, put her joggers on and walk home.

"I did my run, went and had a coffee and went to come back but I couldn't come back," she told 9News.

"So I thought you know what, I will just park the car at Padstow and I have just walked here.

"About eight or nine kilometres until I get home but that's okay.

"There are families hurting I think and for someone to sadly pass away, that's just awful."

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"Northbound traffic on New Illawarra Road is diverting via the Bangor Bypass to travel eastbound to Sutherland while motorists from Sutherland should use Princes Highway instead," the Transport Management Centre said in a statement earlier.

"Southbound traffic on Fairford Road and Davies Road should also consider using the M5 or Clancy Street and Henry Lawson Drive.

"Motorists already in the area should exercise caution, allow plenty of extra travel time and follow directions of emergency services and traffic crews.

"Buses travelling through the area experiencing delays of up to 30 minutes, so passengers should also allow plenty of extra travel time."

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A man has been beaten with a baseball bat during an alleged break-in in Adelaide.

Two attackers allegedly smashed their way into the Christie Downs home with a brick, crowbar and pole at about 1am today.

A 41-year-old man was allegedly repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat in front of his friend.

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"They hit my mate over the head with a baseball bat twice inside the loungeroom, there (was) blood everywhere," friend Paddy Welsh said.

"(I was) trying to hit them back out with whatever we could get.

"They would have killed him, they would have kept hitting him with the bat."

Welsh tried to fend off the alleged attackers while neighbours called the police.

Two men, 27 and 18, were arrested outside the property.

The 41-year-old was rushed to Flinders Medical Centre in a serious condition with non-life threatening injuries.

Both alleged intruders were charged with aggravated serious criminal trespass and aggravated assault.

They were refused bail to front the Christies Beach Magistrates Court. 

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Disgraced Australian Rules football legend Barry Cable repeatedly sexually abused a Perth girl at the height of his playing career and there is compelling evidence he also violated other children, a judge has found.

But his victim expects to receive no compensation from the now-bankrupt Cable despite being awarded $818,700.

After a civil trial in the District Court of Western Australia earlier in 2023, Judge Mark Herron on Friday found Cable abused the victim over five years from 1968 when she was aged 12.

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Cable began grooming the girl, who used to babysit his infant son, with sexualised conversations and unwanted touching before escalating to almost-weekly sexual assaults.

He assaulted the girl at a public swimming pool, the Perth Football Club change rooms and at his home while her younger sister slept nearby.

On multiple occasions, Cable threatened to sexually abuse the younger sister if his victim did not comply with his demands, Herron found.

The abuse triggered suicidal thoughts and caused her to start binge eating and using laxatives, leading to a lifelong medical condition.

Cable, who repeatedly attempted to have the proceedings permanently thrown out and did not attend the trial, has denied abusing the woman.

He has not been charged with any criminal offences.

The trial also heard evidence from four other women who alleged Cable had sexually offended against them when they were children in the 1980s and 1990s.

Herron said he was satisfied each of the women had also been abused by Cable, describing the evidence of one witness as particularly compelling.

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The victim who launched the lawsuit, now aged 67, first went to police in 1998 but prosecutors declined to charge Cable.

She launched civil proceedings in 2019 after the WA government removed time limits for abuse survivors to launch legal action.

"As a child, I was unlucky enough to live next door to a paedophile, Barry Cable," she said in a statement provided by her lawyers.

"I no longer feel shame for the crimes committed against me.

"It's his turn to feel the burning shame … nobody should ever forget that he spent decades enjoying the limelight and spent vast sums of money fighting to hide the truth."

Herron found the woman was entitled to general and exemplary damages and further compensation reflecting past loss of earnings, interest and future medical and psychotherapy expenses totalling $818,700.

She expected to receive "zero" compensation, her lawyer Michael Magazanik said, due to Cable's bankruptcy.

"It's never been about money for my client. It's always been about the truth," Magazanik told reporters outside court.

"If Cable had admitted publicly what he'd done, this would have been over years ago."

Magazanik said he would be "shocked" if police did not examine potentially bringing criminal charges against Cable.

He said Cable had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to stop the case.

"He lied about it for years … he was too gutless to turn up to trial and face the music," Magazanik said.

One of football's most decorated players, Narrogin-born Cable was in 2012 elevated to legend status in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

He had an illustrious playing career for Perth and East Perth in the WAFL and North Melbourne in the VFL, going on to coach in both leagues.

In 2005, he was named by the AFL as a player and coach in the Indigenous team of the century.

Magazanik has urged the AFL to immediately expel Cable from the Hall of Fame and other sporting bodies to follow suit.

The AFL said in a statement it "acknowledges the court's findings today and has no further update at this stage".

A spokeswoman for North Melbourne said the club would consider its options.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

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