{"id":2191,"date":"2019-04-09T05:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T05:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2019-04-09T05:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T05:31:26","slug":"two-men-die-in-crash-investigation-underway-port-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/two-men-die-in-crash-investigation-underway-port-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men die in crash; investigation underway &#8211; Port Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have died following a truck and car crash at Ferodale, near Port Stephens.<br \/>\nEmergency services were called to the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Medowie Road about 11.30am today (Tuesday 9 April 2019), after a sedan and truck collided.<br \/>\nThe two male occupants of the car died at the scene. They haven\u2019t yet been formally identified.<br \/>\nThe driver of the truck wasn\u2019t injured but has been taken to John Hunter Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.<br \/>\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District have established a crime scene and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.<br \/>\nA report will be prepared for the Coroner.<br \/>\nAs inquiries into the crash continue, motorists are urged to avoid the area as significant delays are expected. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livetraffic.com\/\">www.livetraffic.com<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have died following a truck and car crash at Ferodale, near Port Stephens. Emergency services were called to the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Medowie Road about 11.30am today (Tuesday 9 April 2019), after a sedan and truck collided. The two male occupants of the car died at the scene. They haven\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/two-men-die-in-crash-investigation-underway-port-stephens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two men die in crash; investigation underway &#8211; Port Stephens&#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-2191","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\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}