A man remains in custody after a woman was injured when she was allegedly hit by a stolen SUV near Newcastle this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emergency services were called to Newcastle Road at Jesmond shortly before 2am (Wednesday 24 July 2024), after a 21-year-old traffic controller was allegedly struck by a silver Mercedes Benz SUV, which was being pursued by officers attached to Newcastle City Police District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police had initiated the pursuit only moments earlier when the SUV \u2013 which had been reported stolen from Salt Ash \u2013 was seen allegedly travelling above the speed limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police immediately rendered assistance to the injured woman while the alleged driver of the stolen SUV was arrested after a being chased down on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was taken to John Hunter Hospital where she is reported to be in a stable condition with pelvic injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 30-year-old man has been taken to Waratah Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was established by Newcastle City Police with officers from the Hunter Crash Investigation Unit now conducting inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Motorists are advised traffic in the area has been significantly impacted by this incident; they are recommended to avoid the avoid the area and monitor www.livetraffic.com for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man remains in custody after a woman was injured when she was allegedly hit by a stolen SUV near Newcastle this morning. Emergency services were called to Newcastle Road at Jesmond shortly before 2am (Wednesday 24 July 2024), after a 21-year-old traffic controller was allegedly struck by a silver Mercedes Benz SUV, which was … Continue reading “Man in custody after traffic controller hit by stolen SUV near Newcastle”<\/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-27970","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\/27970","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=27970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27971,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions\/27971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}