A man has died following a fatal two-vehicle crash near the Barrington Tops National Park today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 12.50pm (Wednesday 4 May 2022), emergency services were called to The Bucketts Way, Stroud Road \u2013 200m north of Reidsdale Road \u2013 following reports a Nissan X-Trail SUV and a truck had collided.
The driver of the SUV \u2013 a 63-year-old man \u2013 died at the scene.
The driver of the truck \u2013 a 31-year-old man \u2013 was taken to Taree Base Hospital for mandatory testing.
Officers from Port Stephens-Hunters Police District established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died following a fatal two-vehicle crash near the Barrington Tops National Park today. About 12.50pm (Wednesday 4 May 2022), emergency services were called to The Bucketts Way, Stroud Road \u2013 200m north of Reidsdale Road \u2013 following reports a Nissan X-Trail SUV and a truck had collided. The driver of the SUV \u2013 a 63-year-old man … Continue reading “Fatal two-vehicle crash north of Newcastle\u00a0“<\/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-16469","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\/16469","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=16469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16470,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469\/revisions\/16470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}