An elderly man and woman have been taken to hospital in a critical condition following a single-vehicle crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region.
\nAbout 10.30pm yesterday (Monday 11 October 2021), emergency services were called to Wine Country Drive, North Rothbury \u2013 about 19km north of Cessnock \u2013 following reports a Toyota Corolla had left the road and rolled.
\nThe male driver and female passenger \u2013 both aged 94 \u2013 were trapped in the vehicle, before being freed a short time later.
\nThe pair were taken to John Hunter Hospital with critical injuries.
\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District, with assistance from the Crash Investigation Unit, established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
\nAs inquires continue, anyone with information, or dashcam footage from the area, is urged to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An elderly man and woman have been taken to hospital in a critical condition following a single-vehicle crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region. About 10.30pm yesterday (Monday 11 October 2021), emergency services were called to Wine Country Drive, North Rothbury \u2013 about 19km north of Cessnock \u2013 following reports a Toyota Corolla had left the … Continue reading “Two critical after single-vehicle rollover near Cessnock”<\/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-13317","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\/13317","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=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}