{"id":11023,"date":"2021-04-14T12:17:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:17:39","slug":"officer-seriously-injured-when-hit-by-trail-bike-maitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/officer-seriously-injured-when-hit-by-trail-bike-maitland\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer seriously injured when hit by trail bike \u2013 Maitland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been injured when he was struck by a trail bike during a pursuit in the Hunter this evening.<br \/>\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District had initiated a pursuit of the trail bike rider shortly before <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">7pm<\/a> (Wednesday 14 April 2021), on the New England Highway at Maitland.<br \/>\nThe officer was on foot when he was struck by the trail bike and has suffered serious leg fractures, as well as suspected arm, head, pelvic and spinal injuries.<br \/>\nThe male constable has been airlifted to John Hunter Hospital where his condition is reported to be serious but stable.<br \/>\nThe trail bike rider \u2013 a man believed to be aged in his 20s \u2013 has been arrested and taken to John Hunter Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He remains there under police guard.<br \/>\nOfficers attached to the Crash Investigation Unit (CIU) are now inquiring into circumstances surrounding this incident.<br \/>\nAnyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a> or <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been injured when he was struck by a trail bike during a pursuit in the Hunter this evening. Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District had initiated a pursuit of the trail bike rider shortly before 7pm (Wednesday 14 April 2021), on the New England Highway at Maitland. The officer was on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/officer-seriously-injured-when-hit-by-trail-bike-maitland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Officer seriously injured when hit by trail bike \u2013 Maitland&#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-11023","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\/11023","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=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}