An unlicensed driver has been charged following a fatal crash at Lake Macquarie last month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emergency services had been called to Freemans Drive, Cooranbong, about 12.15am (Sunday 14 April 2024), after a northbound car hit the rear of parked SUV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An 18-year-old man in the front passenger seat died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 17-year-old driver was freed by emergency services and taken to John Hunter Hospital, while a 43-year-old man in the SUV suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Lake Macquarie Police District established a crime scene before the investigation was taken over by specialist officers from the Hunter Crash Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver \u2013 now aged 18 \u2013 was arrested when he attended Newcastle Police Station yesterday (Saturday 11 May 2024). He has now been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death \u2013 drive manner dangerous, and negligent driving occasioning death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has been granted conditional bail to appear in Broadmeadow Children\u2019s Court tomorrow (13 May 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An unlicensed driver has been charged following a fatal crash at Lake Macquarie last month. Emergency services had been called to Freemans Drive, Cooranbong, about 12.15am (Sunday 14 April 2024), after a northbound car hit the rear of parked SUV. An 18-year-old man in the front passenger seat died at the scene. The 17-year-old driver was freed … Continue reading “Driver charged over fatal crash \u2013 Lake Macquarie\u00a0“<\/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-26600","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\/26600","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=26600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26601,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions\/26601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}