A man has died after being struck by a truck near Maitland.
\nAbout 2pm today (Wednesday 27 March 2019), emergency services were called to the Hunter Expressway at Buchanan after a 58-year-old man was struck by a semi-trailer.
\nHe died at the scene.
\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District established a crime scene and commenced inquiries.
\nThe truck driver, a 42-year-old man, was taken to Maitland Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.
\nA report will be prepared for the Coroner and inquiries continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after being struck by a truck near Maitland. About 2pm today (Wednesday 27 March 2019), emergency services were called to the Hunter Expressway at Buchanan after a 58-year-old man was struck by a semi-trailer. He died at the scene. Officers from Hunter Valley Police District established a crime scene and commenced … Continue reading “Fatal pedestrian crash – Buchanan, near Maitland”<\/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-2066","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\/2066","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=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}