{"id":10974,"date":"2021-04-08T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10974"},"modified":"2021-04-08T21:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:36:47","slug":"fatal-crash-near-cessnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/fatal-crash-near-cessnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash near Cessnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiries are underway into a single-vehicle crash near Cessnock overnight.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/1\">11.15pm<\/a> (Thursday 8 April 2021), emergency services were called to a private road at Pelaw Main and found a Subaru Forrester had hit a barrier.<br \/>\nA 17-year-old youth suffered critical injuries after he was thrown from the front passenger seat and died at the scene.<br \/>\nThe 17-year-old driver of the vehicle was taken to John Hunter Hospital with minor injuries; he\u2019s also undergone mandatory testing.<br \/>\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District established a crime scene and have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.<br \/>\nA report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiries are underway into a single-vehicle crash near Cessnock overnight. About 11.15pm (Thursday 8 April 2021), emergency services were called to a private road at Pelaw Main and found a Subaru Forrester had hit a barrier. A 17-year-old youth suffered critical injuries after he was thrown from the front passenger seat and died at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/fatal-crash-near-cessnock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fatal crash near Cessnock&#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-10974","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\/10974","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=10974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}