{"id":299,"date":"2018-10-31T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=299"},"modified":"2018-10-31T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:53:24","slug":"two-vehicle-crash-near-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/two-vehicle-crash-near-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-vehicle crash near Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services remain at the scene of a two-vehicle crash near Newcastle.<br \/>\nJust after 9.30am this morning (Wednesday 31 October 2018), emergency services were called to the intersection of Church Street and Maitland Road at Mayfield, following reports a motorcycle and a car had collided.<br \/>\nThe rider, a man aged in his 50s, was treated at the scene before being taken to John Hunter Hospital with serious head injuries.<br \/>\nThe male driver of the car was uninjured and is currently assisting police.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District, with assistance from the Crash Investigation Unit, have established a crime scene and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<br \/>\nChurch Street and Maitland Road are closed, and a number of traffic diversions are in place. Motorists are urged to avoid the area and check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livetraffic.com\/\">www.livetraffic.com<\/a> for the latest information.<br \/>\nAs inquires continue, anyone with information or dashcam footage from the area, is urged to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services remain at the scene of a two-vehicle crash near Newcastle. Just after 9.30am this morning (Wednesday 31 October 2018), emergency services were called to the intersection of Church Street and Maitland Road at Mayfield, following reports a motorcycle and a car had collided. The rider, a man aged in his 50s, was treated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/two-vehicle-crash-near-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two-vehicle crash near Newcastle&#8221;<\/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-299","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\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}