A woman has died after she was struck by a truck at Lake Macquarie overnight.
\nEmergency services were called to the M1 at Cameron Park, near the Newcastle Link Road, just after 9pm (Thursday 22 April 2021), following reports a pedestrian had been hit by a truck.
\nWitnesses performed CPR; however, the female pedestrian died at the scene. She is yet to be formally identified.
\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie and Newcastle City Police Districts attended and established a crime scene, which has since been forensically examined.
\nThe truck driver, a 23-year-old man, was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.
\nAn investigation has commenced into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
\nA report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has died after she was struck by a truck at Lake Macquarie overnight. Emergency services were called to the M1 at Cameron Park, near the Newcastle Link Road, just after 9pm (Thursday 22 April 2021), following reports a pedestrian had been hit by a truck. Witnesses performed CPR; however, the female pedestrian died … Continue reading “Fatal pedestrian crash – Lake Macquarie”<\/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-11126","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\/11126","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=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}