A woman will face court charged following a crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 6pm on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, police were told a 57-year-old woman was driving a Mazda sedan eastbound on the New England Highway in East Maitland, approaching the intersection with Mitchell Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As she entered the intersection, the vehicle crashed into a traffic light pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics for minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command attended and attempted to conduct a roadside breath test but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was arrested and taken to Maitland Police Station where she underwent a breath analysis, which returned an alleged reading of 0.342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was charged with refusing to submit to a breath test and driving with high range PCA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was issued a Field Court Attendance Notice to appear before Maitland Local Court on Wednesday 25 September, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman will face court charged following a crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region earlier this week. About 6pm on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, police were told a 57-year-old woman was driving a Mazda sedan eastbound on the New England Highway in East Maitland, approaching the intersection with Mitchell Drive. As she entered the intersection, … Continue reading “Woman charged following single vehicle crash – East 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-28765","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\/28765","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=28765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28766,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765\/revisions\/28766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}