{"id":17078,"date":"2022-06-21T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17078"},"modified":"2022-06-21T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:30:26","slug":"fatal-pedestrian-crash-hunter-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/fatal-pedestrian-crash-hunter-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Pedestrian crash \u2013 Hunter Valley\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pedestrian has died after being hit by a vehicle in the Hunter Valley this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About&nbsp;6.30am&nbsp;(Tuesday 21 June 2022), emergency services were called to Cessnock Road, Maitland, following reports a male pedestrian had been hit by a truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the truck \u2013 a 47-year-old man \u2013 immediately stopped and rendered assistance; however, the 62-year-old man died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The truck driver was uninjured and taken to Maitland Hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inquiries are continuing into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian has died after being hit by a vehicle in the Hunter Valley this morning. About&nbsp;6.30am&nbsp;(Tuesday 21 June 2022), emergency services were called to Cessnock Road, Maitland, following reports a male pedestrian had been hit by a truck. The driver of the truck \u2013 a 47-year-old man \u2013 immediately stopped and rendered assistance; however, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/fatal-pedestrian-crash-hunter-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fatal Pedestrian crash \u2013 Hunter Valley\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<\/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-17078","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\/17078","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=17078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}