A man has been charged following a fatal two-vehicle crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 3.45pm on Monday 5 August 2024, emergency services responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash on Cessnock Road, Gillieston Heights, approximately 5km south of Maitland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Port Stephens \u2013 Hunter Police District attended and found a Nissan Patrol and an Isuzu truck had collided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver of the Nissan patrol \u2013 a 31-year-old man \u2013 died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The passenger \u2013 a 30-year-old woman \u2013 sustained minor injuries and was taken to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver of the truck \u2013 a 34-year-old man \u2013 sustained serious leg and spinal injuries. He was taken to John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was later examined by specialist police attached to the Crash Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, on Thursday 14 November 2024, the 34-year-old man was charged with dangerous driving occasion death \u2013 drive manner dangerous, negligent driving (occasioning death), not keep left of driving line-not class B\/C vehicle, drive licence suspended under section 66 Fines Act and possess prohibited drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will appear before Maitland Local Court on Wednesday 15 January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged following a fatal two-vehicle crash in the state\u2019s Hunter Region earlier this year. About 3.45pm on Monday 5 August 2024, emergency services responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash on Cessnock Road, Gillieston Heights, approximately 5km south of Maitland. Officers attached to Port Stephens \u2013 Hunter Police District attended and … Continue reading “Man charged following fatal 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-30092","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\/30092","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=30092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30093,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30092\/revisions\/30093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}