Police have charged a woman following a fatal crash near scone earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 3:55pm Friday 4 October 2024, emergency services were called to Bunnan Road, Owens Gap, 22kms west of Scone, following reports a Mitsubishi Lancer had collided with a Nissan Navara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Hunter Valley Police District attended and were told the sedan \u2013 with three women in it – was travelling north and was attempting to negotiate a right-hand bend when it collided with the ute \u2013 with a man and a woman in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The female front passenger in the sedan, aged 76, died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The female driver of the sedan, aged 53, and female passenger, aged 39, were airlifted to John Hunter Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The male driver of the ute, aged 27, and the female passenger, aged 24, were also taken to John Hunter Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drivers of both vehicles have undergone mandatory testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Hunter and Mid North Coast Crash Investigation Units attended and established a crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following extensive investigations, police charged the 53-year-old driver with dangerous driving occasioning death, negligent driving occasioning death and no keep left of dividing line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was issued a future court attendance notice to appear before Muswellbrook Local Court Tuesday 17 December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police have charged a woman following a fatal crash near scone earlier this month. About 3:55pm Friday 4 October 2024, emergency services were called to Bunnan Road, Owens Gap, 22kms west of Scone, following reports a Mitsubishi Lancer had collided with a Nissan Navara. Officers from Hunter Valley Police District attended and were told the … Continue reading “Charges laid following investigation into fatal crash near Scone\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-29624","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\/29624","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=29624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29625,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions\/29625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}