A man has been charged following a pursuit in the state\u2019s Hunter region yesterday.
\nAbout 5.30pm on Wednesday (5 January 2022), officers attached to the Traffic & Highway Patrol Command were travelling north on Stewart Avenue, Hamilton South, when they observed a white Ford Falcon driving in a dangerous manner.
\nA short time later, police sighted the vehicle travelling on Wallsend and Maitland Road, Sandgate.
\nPolice have attempted to stop the vehicle however the driver allegedly failed to stop as directed by police, and a pursuit was initiated.
\nThe vehicle has crashed into another vehicle travelling in the same direction before stopping about 20 meters into marshland.
\nWhen the vehicle stopped, the driver has fled the scene of foot before he was arrested at Hexham. He was taken to the Mater Hospital for testing before being taken to Waratah police station.
\nThe driver \u2013 a 25-year-old man \u2013 was charged with police pursuit \u2013 not stop – drive dangerously, not obey direction of police\/authorised person, negligent driving, use unregistered registrable class A motor vehicle on road, use uninsured motor vehicle, drive motor vehicle during disqualification period and not give particulars to other driver (2).
\nNo one was injured in the crash.
\nThe man was refused bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court on Thursday 6 January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged following a pursuit in the state\u2019s Hunter region yesterday. About 5.30pm on Wednesday (5 January 2022), officers attached to the Traffic & Highway Patrol Command were travelling north on Stewart Avenue, Hamilton South, when they observed a white Ford Falcon driving in a dangerous manner. A short time later, police … Continue reading “Man charged following pursuit – Hexham”<\/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-14442","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\/14442","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=14442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}