A man has died after a three-vehicle crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7.30pm yesterday (Friday 2 August 2024), emergency services responded to reports of a three-vehicle crash along Cessnock Road, Gillieston Heights, approximately 5km south of Maitland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver of one of the vehicles \u2013 a 44-year-old man \u2013 died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the other drivers \u2013 a 40-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman \u2013 at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 40-year-old man was taken to John Hunter Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was assessed at the scene for minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District established a crime scene that was later examined by specialist police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the information of the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after a three-vehicle crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region. About 7.30pm yesterday (Friday 2 August 2024), emergency services responded to reports of a three-vehicle crash along Cessnock Road, Gillieston Heights, approximately 5km south of Maitland. The driver of one of the vehicles \u2013 a 44-year-old man \u2013 died at the scene. … Continue reading “Fatal motor vehicle crash 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-28236","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\/28236","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=28236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28237,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28236\/revisions\/28237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}