A man has died after a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in the Lake Macquarie area yesterday.
\nAbout 3.30pm (Saturday 28 August 2021), emergency services were called to Boundary Street, West Wallsend, after reports a motorcyclist had left the road and crashed.
\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District attended and found a KTM 450 motorcycle had crashed into trees and bushes, just south of Bridge Street.
\nMembers of the public and NSW Ambulance officers attempted CPR on the rider, an 18-year-old man, however he could not be revived and died at the scene.
\nA crime scene was established and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash is underway.
\nPolice will prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in the Lake Macquarie area yesterday. About 3.30pm (Saturday 28 August 2021), emergency services were called to Boundary Street, West Wallsend, after reports a motorcyclist had left the road and crashed. Officers from Lake Macquarie Police District attended and found a KTM 450 motorcycle had crashed … Continue reading “Man dies after motorcycle crash – West Wallsend”<\/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-12702","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\/12702","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=12702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}