A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash tonight at Williamtown, near Newcastle.
\nThe 62-year-old man, from Medowie, was travelling along Cabbage Tree Road around 6.15pm when his motorcycle collided with a utility.
\nThe motorcycle then careered into an adjacent fence, fatally injuring the rider.
\nThe driver of the ute, a 24-year-old man from Williamtown, has been taken to hospital for routine blood alcohol tests.
\nA crime scene has been established as officers from the Port Stephens-Hunter Police District investigate the incident.
\nPolice are appealing to anyone who may have dash-cam footage of the crash to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash tonight at Williamtown, near Newcastle. The 62-year-old man, from Medowie, was travelling along Cabbage Tree Road around 6.15pm when his motorcycle collided with a utility. The motorcycle then careered into an adjacent fence, fatally injuring the rider. The driver of the ute, a 24-year-old man from Williamtown, … Continue reading “Motorcyclist killed – Williamtown”<\/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-2676","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\/2676","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=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}