{"id":10687,"date":"2021-03-17T03:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T03:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2021-03-17T03:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T03:57:59","slug":"man-charged-following-serious-crash-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/man-charged-following-serious-crash-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged following serious crash &#8211; Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court next month charged over a serious crash in Lake Macquarie last year.<br \/>\nAbout 9.15pm on Monday 19 October 2020, emergency services were called to Bareki Road, Eleebana, following reports a Honda Civic travelling north and a Ford Mondeo travelling south collided at the intersection of Eleebana Road.<br \/>\nThe driver of the Honda \u2013 a 46-year-old man from Abermain \u2013 was trapped for a short time before being taken to John Hunter Hospital with serious internal injuries; he has since been released from hospital.<br \/>\nTwo children in the Ford \u2013 aged five and six-weeks-old \u2013 suffered serious head injuries and were taken to John Hunter Hospital. They have since been released from hospital.<br \/>\nThe male driver of the Ford, aged 36, and his female passenger, aged 31, were uninjured during the crash.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to the Hunter Crash Investigation Unit commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, police attended a home on Cessnock Road, Abermain, and spoke with a 46-year-old man.<br \/>\nHe was issued with a future court attendance notice for the following offences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm \u2013 drive manner dangerous<\/li>\n<li>Cause bodily harm by misconduct in charge of motor vehicle (x2)<\/li>\n<li>Negligent driving (occasioning grievous bodily harm)<\/li>\n<li>Negligent driving (no death or grievous bodily harm)<\/li>\n<li>Drive vehicle illicit drug present in blood<\/li>\n<li>Not keep left of dividing line-not class B\/C vehicle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is due to appear at Belmont Local Court on Wednesday 21 April 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man will face court next month charged over a serious crash in Lake Macquarie last year. About 9.15pm on Monday 19 October 2020, emergency services were called to Bareki Road, Eleebana, following reports a Honda Civic travelling north and a Ford Mondeo travelling south collided at the intersection of Eleebana Road. The driver of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/man-charged-following-serious-crash-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged following serious crash &#8211; Lake Macquarie&#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-10687","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\/10687","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=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}