{"id":10600,"date":"2021-03-10T22:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2021-03-10T22:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:21:34","slug":"man-arrested-following-pursuit-hunter-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/man-arrested-following-pursuit-hunter-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested following pursuit &#8211; Hunter Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested following a police pursuit in the Hunter Valley this morning.<br \/>\nShortly before 7am (Thursday 11 March 2021), officers received reports regarding a white Holden Commodore travelling north on the New England Highway, allegedly being driven in a dangerous manner and crossing onto the incorrect side of the road.<br \/>\nPolice attached to the Newcastle-Hunter Traffic &amp; Highway Patrol located the vehicle and initiated a pursuit, about 5km north of the Liddell Power Station.<br \/>\nA short time later, the Commodore allegedly lost control and collided with a B-Double truck travelling southbound.<br \/>\nThe 30-year-old male driver of the Commodore suffered minor injuries and has been taken to Muswellbrook Hospital under police guard for mandatory testing.<br \/>\nThe driver of the truck \u2013 a 28-year-old man \u2013 was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics for minor injuries.<br \/>\nThe New England Highway has just been reopened, however heavy traffic remains \u2013 for the latest traffic information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livetraffic.com\/\">www.livetraffic.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nInquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested following a police pursuit in the Hunter Valley this morning. Shortly before 7am (Thursday 11 March 2021), officers received reports regarding a white Holden Commodore travelling north on the New England Highway, allegedly being driven in a dangerous manner and crossing onto the incorrect side of the road. Police attached &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/man-arrested-following-pursuit-hunter-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man arrested following pursuit &#8211; Hunter Valley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}