{"id":18440,"date":"2022-10-01T17:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=18440"},"modified":"2022-10-01T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:24:58","slug":"fatal-crash-hunter-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/fatal-crash-hunter-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash \u2013 Hunter Region\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigations are underway following a fatal crash in the Hunter Region today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before&nbsp;11am&nbsp;(Saturday 1 October 2022), emergency services were called to Flaggs Road near Depot Road, Merriwa, following reports a vehicle had left the roadway and hit a tree, before rolling a number of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NSW Ambulance paramedics attended and assisted the occupants; however, one of the passengers \u2013 a 10-year-old boy \u2013 died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second passenger \u2013 a 15-year-old girl \u2013 was taken by road to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver \u2013 a 46-year-old man \u2013 was airlifted to the same hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers from Hunter Valley Police District have commenced inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the crash and are appealing for anyone with information or dashcam footage to come forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations are underway following a fatal crash in the Hunter Region today. Just before&nbsp;11am&nbsp;(Saturday 1 October 2022), emergency services were called to Flaggs Road near Depot Road, Merriwa, following reports a vehicle had left the roadway and hit a tree, before rolling a number of times. NSW Ambulance paramedics attended and assisted the occupants; however, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/fatal-crash-hunter-region\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fatal crash \u2013 Hunter Region\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-18440","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\/18440","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=18440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18441,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18440\/revisions\/18441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}