{"id":19393,"date":"2022-12-03T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19393"},"modified":"2022-12-03T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:07:00","slug":"driver-charged-after-motorcyclist-dies-fennell-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/driver-charged-after-motorcyclist-dies-fennell-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged after motorcyclist dies \u2013 Fennell Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man is due in Newcastle Bail Court today charged over a crash in which a motorcyclist died in Lake Macquarie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash happened about 10pm Thursday (1 December 2022), when the driver of a Mitsubishi Triton ute allegedly ran a red light, at the intersection of Macquarie and Main roads, and hit a motorcyclist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers from Lake Macquarie Police District rendered first aid to the 49-year-old man until NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived; however, the Maryville man was unable to be revived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the ute, a 33-year-old man, allegedly ran from the scene before stealing another vehicle. He was arrested a short time later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man was taken to John Hunter Hospital for mandatory testing and to be treated for minor injuries. He was released about&nbsp;2pm&nbsp;and was taken to Newcastle Police Station where he was charged with nine offences,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dangerous driving occasioning death<\/li><li>Negligent driving occasioning death<\/li><li>Drive manner dangerous<\/li><li>Fail to stop and assist<\/li><li>Disqualified driving<\/li><li>Take and drive conveyance (two counts)<\/li><li>Proceed through red light, and<\/li><li>Enter dwelling with intent.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man, from Wangi Wangi, has been refused bail to appear in Newcastle Local Court today (Saturday 3 December 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is due in Newcastle Bail Court today charged over a crash in which a motorcyclist died in Lake Macquarie. The crash happened about 10pm Thursday (1 December 2022), when the driver of a Mitsubishi Triton ute allegedly ran a red light, at the intersection of Macquarie and Main roads, and hit a motorcyclist. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/driver-charged-after-motorcyclist-dies-fennell-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driver charged after motorcyclist dies \u2013 Fennell Bay&#8221;<\/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-19393","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\/19393","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=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19394,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions\/19394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}